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Re: [Healeys] odd noise and rough running

To: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] odd noise and rough running
From: "Frank Magnusson" <fmags@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 09:00:14 -0500
I was wondering that as well.  I had just had the cap off a few weeks before 
but had run the car several times with no problems.  There is a slight bit 
of play between the metal finger on the rotor and the bakelite rotor itself 
where the two are attached with a rivit, but that play was there before.  I 
didn't look closely at the contacts inside the cap; I'll take a lolok at 
that this morning.

thanks,
Frank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
To: "Frank Magnusson" <fmags@cox.net>
Cc: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] odd noise and rough running


> This is just a SWAG, but could the rotor have contacted the terminals 
> inside the distributor cap?  I have, on at least one occasion, left one of 
> the clips off the cap and the cap was tilted slightly, but it didn't make 
> any sound--if it had been tilted much more I'm sure it would have made 
> some noise.
>
> bs
>
>
>
> Frank Magnusson wrote:
>> A strange thing happened on the way home yesterday.  I was going 50-55 or 
>> so
>> and decided not to switch into OD as I only had a couple miles to go; 
>> normally
>> I run around 3000 rpm; but wirthout the OD it was around 3500.  All of a
>> sudden I heard this whizzing noise like two gears not quite meshing; 
>> something
>> rotating coming into contact with something else anyway and the car 
>> started
>> running very rough.  Stalled it approaching a stop sign which I decided 
>> to run
>> and dropped it into second and popped the clutch and got it running 
>> again.
>> The noise went away after 10-15 seconds.  Still running crappy as I got 
>> into
>> the driveway.  But a little better and well enough to let it run 
>> unattended
>> while I put the garage door up.  Now running better; decided to run it 
>> around
>> the block and low and behold; ran fine and everyhting sounded normal. 
>> The
>> only thing that was different weas that the tach read around 1500 and 
>> clearly
>> it sounded like my normal idle at around 1000 or less.
>>
>> This morning I looked it over, water pump, generator, and distributor all
>> looked good with no play in anything; cap and rotor looked fine as well.
>> Drove around the block for 5 miles or so up to 4,000 rpm in and out of 
>> OD;
>> running normally.
>>
>> The only thing that makes sense to me is the distributor and I wonder if 
>> the
>> odd rpm reading when it gets hot is a clue; condensor, coil?.  But I 
>> can't
>> figure out what the noise was.
>>
>> Anybody have any ideas?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Frank
>> '65 BJ8
>> Wichita, KS.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> *******************************************************************
> Bob Spidell           San Jose, CA            bspidell@comcast.net
>
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