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WyomingSageHopper · 10-03-2011, 06:56 PM

Hi I'm Dustin and I bought a 1978 scout 2 and it runs for about 20 minutes or so then dies. I wait around thirty minutes and it does the same thing. Anybody have any idea why it is doing what it's doing. I have replaced the carburetor, I replaced the plugs and wires and it already had the electronic ignition on it. The guy said that he drove it and parked it where I found it but he hasn't driven it in four years. Suggestions?

64dumptruck · 10-07-2011, 02:34 PM

The ignition box is overheating.

Urban Wheeler · 10-08-2011, 12:47 PM

Gold box. Switch out the distributor for a points unit.

10-03-2011, 06:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
WyomingSageHopper Registered User Join Date: Oct 2011 Member # 200183 Location: Big Piney, Wyoming Posts: 2	1978 scout ii Hi I'm Dustin and I bought a 1978 scout 2 and it runs for about 20 minutes or so then dies. I wait around thirty minutes and it does the same thing. Anybody have any idea why it is doing what it's doing. I have replaced the carburetor, I replaced the plugs and wires and it already had the electronic ignition on it. The guy said that he drove it and parked it where I found it but he hasn't driven it in four years. Suggestions?

10-07-2011, 02:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
64dumptruck Blower Binder Join Date: Sep 2009 Member # 142191 Location: Monticello Illinois Posts: 311	The ignition box is overheating. __________________ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Ben Franklin "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." Malcolm X

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