Everyone,
I seem to have a number of degenerative problems with my 1980 Spitfire.
Currently I am getting no spark from the coil. I purchased a new one (Lucas
Sports Coil) and the old one was less than three months old (Lucas 15B6
ballasted coil). I was getting a weak orange spark up until a few days ago
wit the old coil. The battery drained from all my attempts at starting the
car. So I put in a good one that I had sitting around (It has a full charge
BTW). I've tried two different distributors (one points, one electronic)
to no avail. The high tension wire from the coil to the distributor
produces no spark when I turn the engine over. I can hear the starter whir
and there's compression. The wiring around the coil looks different than
what the Bentley and Factory Reprint manuals indicate. There are two
white/slate wires coming from the harness that are spliced together to
attach to the - side and a simple white wire that attached to the + side. I
found the white/yellow that was indicated in the wiring diagram, but it was
cut back so I spliced a wire o it and attached it to the + terminal without
any effect. There are no white/black wires coming from the harness, the
only one left is a black one connected to the PDWA(?). The white wire I
mentioned above was connected to the white wire that is meant for the drive
resistor (which is not on the system). The car was modified at one time to
have the Lucas CEI system, which does have a white/black wire coming from
the module and was attached to the coil before the CEI system died and I
replaced the distributor in that system with a points one from a parts car.
I tried a listquest search but it seems to be down at the moment.
Hopefully I didn't leave anything out of this description and am in
desperate need of help. Thanks for any suggestions.
Slanté (And I do need a drink right now)
Sean Twigg
'80 Spitfire
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