Hi Charles:
This was a wonderful email! Please excues me for being so entertained,
but if you hadn't identified what kind of car you were talking about I
still would have known it was a British car by the description (oil
leaks, electrical problems, overheating in traffic...). Anyway,
getting on to saying something that might be useful to you:
Tuning these old beasties should be kept simple, in my opinion. I have
a '74 TR6 on which I tried using a strobe light and a dwell meter -
the car hated it and ran like s**t. So I asked my buddies in the
Triumph Travelers club how they time their TRs. Now I just use a cheap
timing light (basically a 12 v. bulb with two wires and alligator
clips), set the timing to 10 degrees BTDC (before top dead center) and
forget it.
Speaking of car clubs, I see from your email that you work in
Cupertino(?). Triumph Travelers is based in San Jose. If you're
interested in coming out to a meeting let me know. And yes, all you
SOLers, that was a shameless plug for my club!
I can't offer you any advice about adjusting the horns, although it
does sound like something Lucas would design. My god, take off the
front cowl to adjust the horns, oh, it's just too much! Please pardon
me as I "fall about" as our British friends might say :-).
Jim
jims@autodesk.com
'74 TR6 CF20076U
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