Driving back from beach on New Year's Day with 10-year-old daughter, Moke just stopped. Would turnover (crank) but would not fire. Tested for spark at the HT lead and at the plugs and all seemed fine. Test fuel flow to carb and that seemed fine, too. Replaced coil next day and Moke started and *seems* to be running fine.
However, I've tested the old coil with mulitmeter and it seems ok (3.1 ohms and 12100 ohms) so am concerned there is something else going on. Any thoughts?
A couple of observations:
It has been running beautifully.
It was raining when it stopped (of course), though not especially heavily.
About a kilometre beforehand, when I throttled up after a downhill coast, it backfired once.
It then started to kick (very, very slightly) when powering up to 80 kmh, uphill.
On the following downhill run, it stalled -- coasted to a stop and simply wouldn't restart.
On investigating I found the housing/cover for the starter was loose -- like really, rattly loose. Tightened it up but still wouldn't start (thought it might have been an earthing issue).
Also noticed a very small spark from the +ive terminal (or rather, the wire attached to the +ive terminal) of the coil to its 'nose'.
Thanks.