Hi Group, I started reading this newsgroup about a week ago but this is my
first post...I am not too familiar with the Microsoft Exchange editor here so
if this message ends up somewhere it doesn't belong I apologize....
Back
in the late 60's or early 70's I had a A-H Sprite (62?..the first year AFTER
the bugeye) which taught me that LBCs can be cruel mistresses.. Next came
the wife, then the kids, then the Pintos/Wagons etc...out went the LBC
...cut to present...
About a week ago the wife was out so I handled
dinner..I picked up a $1000 pizza.. OK OK that is a little much with only two
toppings, but on the way to pick it up I spotted a little shape huddled in
the "cars for sale" corner of the local shopping center.. Without going into
too many details (as you see I can become windy at the drop of a hat) I drove
home in a 3 cylinder '78 Spit the next day. (bad spark plug #2 cylinder, now
runs on all 4).
She looks basically solid, and most pieces seem to
work...with a little tweaking. Apparently the PO bought the car 3 years
before as resto project.. then parked it in his garage due to medical
reasons. He is moving into an apartment and the car had to go..
Needless to say, I have a few questions. Some DPO in her past history
considered spraying everything in the engine compartment blue as a tune up.
Blue cables. belts, sparkplugs, carbs, wiring... which is the first
problem.. most of the wires are now color-coded BLUE! I can peel back the
harness taping to reveal most of the coding luckily.
Question #1 (finally)
There are two loose connectors near the left side of the block...nothing
matches them..any idea where they go?
#2
This '78 has breaker points..
when did they first use electonic ignition?
#3
The tach doesn't work.. I
tried the spare tach (this baby came with SPARES!) but no luck.. I then
spotted a loose wire in the general area of the coil and noted there were no
extra wires on the coil for a tach tie-in but there was a open spade
lug...tried it..no luck.. Does the tach tie in to the coil and if so, what is
the color code of the wire?
#4
The ignition resistor (I assume) on the
firewall has a wire going to it from the started solenoid hot lug.. nothing
hooked up to the other lug. I read something here about 12v coils and
not-12v coils.. I am guessing that this car had a <12v coil and possibly
swapped in a 12v.. would that preclude needing the resistor?
I bought a
Haynes book, but so far the color codes on the chart are less than a 100%
match with what I've got...
...now to remember that a "hood" is a
"bonnet" and a "wrench" is a "spanner"...<G>
Thanks much,
Tony Bauman ('78 Spit)
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