Michael -
Are you using solid wire or graphite core spark plug
wires? If you are using graphite wires, that can be
the source of your weak spark problem (you get a miss
under the conditions you are talking about if you have
weak spark). Also... is your coil new or very old?
Is your engine properly grounded? Are you using
points and condensor or Pertronix system? If it's a
pertronix system, how old is it? Answer these
questions and then we can better diagnose.
Regards,
Alan
'53 BN1 '64 BJ8
--- Awgertoo@aol.com wrote:
> I posted a few weeks back about an intermittent miss
> on the 3000, to which I
> received a number of helpful, if inconsistent,
> replies--some suggesting
> mixture and others spark.. In the interim, the
> intermittency has become "less
> intermittent", appears pretty regularly when
> accelerating slowly or moderately from
> low RPM's (2000 or so) and seems to be more of a
> fluttering at constant
> cruising speeds (3000 or so) but does NOT appear
> under load--there is no miss under
> hard acceleration all the way up to redline.
>
> Under the theory that most carburettor problems are
> spark-related I thought
> that I would start with the ignition system. In
> doing an "in-the-dark" test
> for visible spark leaks tonight I happened to rest
> my forearm on both the
> ignition cap and fender and got a definite shock
> which seems to be coming from
> around the coil lead where it comes out of the cap,
> though nothing was visible. I
> could not find any crack or arc trail on the cap
> either in or out, but I
> wonder if this is signifigant?
>
> Best--Michael Oritt
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