So these past few weeks the old girl has been running so well, with only a minor issue with my points where the rubbing block is wearing down extremely fast meaning every few hundred k's i have to re-gap the points, other than that she has been running perfectly and has taken me to some awesome places and ive been on some epic cruises with friends
It really has been impressive, this week it got an oil change and i had another attempt at fixing the oil leak which was a success. Then i got jinxed, someone commented on how well my car had been going. sure enough i came close to death that night when i suffered from extreme brake fade after having no choice but to ride my brakes down a mountain to avoid running into the toyota landcruiser infront of me that was riding their brakes
i was in 2nd revving at 4000rpm and rising every time i let go of the pedal, going into first was not an option at this point, then just got to the last 1/4 of a steep section and i put my foot on the pedal and whoops, nothing there, so quickly ripped up the handbrake (of which doesn't lock) then diving onto a dirt patch at the bottom of the hill where i popped it into first and fishtailed to a stop. i sat for a good 10 minutes thinking how badly that would have ended if the brakes had gone any sooner. and just as a side note, my mate was in his Datsun 1200 drove the same section of road with us but didnt get caught up behind this Landcruiser as long as i did, But on Queensland raceway he has brake fade problems well before i ever do, and driving without someone ahead of him he had no brake problems what so ever.
This here is the route we drove, point B is where i come to a stop after losing the brakes.
http://goo.gl/maps/JZ3dd
Then the next Night, or Lastnight we decided to go to springbrook for a drive, while on the highway towards Nerang i was following everyone and keeping pace, noticed they started pulling away, put my foot down and Nothing, quick check of the gauges and didnt notice until i saw the tach that i had nothing, engine was gone. so blinker on and across 4 lanes of traffic to end up on the side of the pacific motorway at 9pm. jumped out and checked i had fuel, yep still fuel in the lines and nothing leaking, next up i started going through the ignition, eventually pulled the dizzy cap off to find that the prong that the points wire connects to broke clean off of the rubber grommit that houses the coil to condenser wire. After 2 and a half hours of trying different things i found a carton knife in the car and cut the rubber grommet down to where the last millimeter of the prong was left, then held it open with a screw driver and stuck a bit of wire in there resulting in this.
new one for reference
It worked well enough to get the car started but i figured if the vacuum advance does its thing enough it would eventually work the wire out of the rubber grommet so i got some hose clamps and made a make shift vacuum line blocker, with that all done i drove the old girl home doing my best not to got to close to 4000rpm.
The initial problem that caused this is the wire from the points that is meant to attach to the prong was very short and only just reaches, and slackened off whenever the vacuum advance advanced the timing, so what had happened is after actioning so many times it broke, and lucky on the highway, not on the mountain we were travelling to at the time.
Anyways, after and eventful two nights she is still alive and now running right ready for another night on the road
Cheers
VGJONO
so i pulled off to have a quick break before going back on for another 25 minutes, kinda glad i lifted the bonnet for a quick check
and also had some headlight issues so swapped out some lights and got everything working again 
