John,
You can disregard much of my earlier reply, since you found the cause.
Last month's TSO had a tech article about distributor orientation.
Its illustration, the same as in the workshop manual, shows the flat edge
of the distributor facing the rear edge of the dynamo. In that position,
the tach cable can't contact the primary wire to distributor.
Bob
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:23:17 -0500 "Gunnell, John" <gunnellj@krause.com>
writes:
> Thanks again for all the advice
>
> Here is what was happening. The car arrived without a tach cable.
> Last night I checked to see if the tach drive on the dynamo was
> working. I left the tach drive conduit disconnected. It was lying in
> such a position that when I put the clutch in, the linkage moved the
> conduit against the distributor, shorting the ignition out.
> Luckily we have a fly-in and lunch at a small airport here every
> Friday. I managed to get the car there and it took one of the
> airplane builders a second or so to spot the culprit.
>
> John Gunnell
> Old Cars Weekly
> Iola, Wis.
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