I'll go first.

Rainy night, 73 D-jet, it simply shut down in traffic leaving a crowded stoplight in rush hour madness. Crossed three lanes coasting onto the shoulder. No tools, no flashlight, barely a streetlight to see with.

Fussed with the ignition, since the shutdown seemed so final, but the dist cap looked ok. Dash lights worked but no fire. Tested fuel pump; OK.

I remembered my cold start injector bypass, that I had wired to a toggle switch, because the thermal timer switch had failed.

It started, revved up and sputtered. By toggling the switch I was able to keep it from flooding itself, until I got going, when I left it on and opened the trottle slightly. I was able to keep up 35 mph going, and by timing the lights, made it the 18 miles home through heavy traffic without further incident.

It was a bad central D-jet ground, the one on the intake manifold. FI was offline.

Michael Pergiel, Elmhurst, IL
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'74 145e T-5 'Orange Alert'