There are also 2 lengths of wire nut. Shorty for dizzy caps long for the
coils. If you need dimendions, yell.
Peter C
(as yet un-Triumphant)
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At 12:18 PM 1/12/99 -0500, Andrew Mace wrote:
>
>On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> I unthinkingly pulled the high tension ignition wire out of the top of
>> the coil on my '60 TR-3A. Then I unscrewed the plastic nut that surrounds
>> the wire. I big chunk of the threaded part was gone - perhaps a third of
>> its circumference, up to about half its length. I expected to find the
>> broken piece sitting in the coil, but did not. The plastic nut appears to
>> have been abraded away, but the threads in the coil seem ok.
>> I theorize that the lead was not inserted far enough into the coil to
>> make good electrical contact and there was sparking going on there. Anyone
>> encountered this problem before?
>> In any case, this is a miserable design. Anyone have a strategy for
>> preparing this connection properly?
>
>The HT lead should have on the end of it (after the threaded plastic nut
>is slipped over the wire) a small brass(?) disc. The wire strands from
>the HT lead pass through a hole in the center of that disc and then are
>splayed out radially. That helps hold that disc on as well as helping to
>make good contact. As I recall, the disc will not pass through the
>threaded nut, so if properly set up it all holds together pretty well.
>
>Of course, it doesn't work quite as well if you don't have metal core HT
>leads. ;-)
>
>--Andy
>
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