Kevin,
Do you know the story on the car with the wooden body shown on the following
page of your club's website?
http://www.capecodbritishcarclub.org/CarPhotos/Just_try_to_name_this_one.jpg
The driver's door looks suspiciously TR3 like, but I don't really know why
it would be related at all since it seems to be made of wood.
Gary
'73
----- Original Message -----
From: "KTnKT" <ktnkt@cape.com>
To: <WaltP@Anspach.com>; "6 Pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: still missing
> Walt,
> if the other suggestions you've heard don't work, try pulling the
> plug wires, one at a time, and look inside the insulators at both ends
> with a flashlight. If they're like the ones I had on my car last year,
> you'll find a few with blackened connectors. In fact, one wire
> completely separated from the crimp connection and fell off the
> distributor cap when the cap was removed. This was caused by the crimps
> at the connectors not being tight enough. And no, these wires weren't 5
> or 10 years old. They had been installed 3 months earlier, and had about
> 2,000 miles on them. Just one more example of the inferior parts being
> manufactured for us these days. They had been purchased from one of the
> "big 2".
> (I don't even consider Victoria British to be in the running since
> getting a box of absolute trash from them a few years ago for a Spitfire
> project)..
> In any case, back to the subject..... The arcing from the weak
> connections burned the center wire core completely through on half the
> wires. Any time one buys a set of wires, it's good practice to check all
> connections, and tighten the crimps if neccesary.
> Good luck,
> Kevin "sparky" Thompson
> at: www.capecodbritishcarclub.org
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