Becky's ignition troubles

[John Hofstetter <hofs@domain.elided>]

>Digesters,
>I am having a problem with my scout.  It dies when you hit a sharp bump in
>the road.  Most of the time you can slip it into neutral and it will start
>right back up. Sometimes when it dies it will backfire.
>Sometimes it is hard to start back up, almsot like it is flooded, but its
>not.
>I have check the battery connection. What else can I check? Could the gold
>box have anything to do with this?
>Please help, supposed to go hunting this coming weekend.
>Thank you,
>Becky Bass
>thefarm@domain.elided

Becky,
I think you quite obviously have a loose connection somewhere. Maybe the 
connector where all the wires go through the firewall. Take the screw 
out, pull the plug off, spray all the sockets with a cleaner, put some 
dielectric grease on all the connectors and put it back together. It also 
could be a wire on the coil, a wire on the distributor, and many other 
possibilities, probably not the Gold Box. If you have an auto tranny, it 
also could be the nuetral safety switch, I would think. 
John H.