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Re: No Spark Spit

To: <KHOCO@aol.com>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: No Spark Spit
From: "Michael Marr" <mmarr@idcnet.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 21:48:49 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Make sure that the new points you installaed are not grounding out.  There
should be an insulating bushingbetween the spring on the moving side of the
points and the mounting post on the distributor body.  If this bushing is
not there, the points will be continually grounded and you will never get a
spark.  Ask me how I know this...

-----Original Message-----
From: KHOCO@aol.com <KHOCO@aol.com>
To: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>;
triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, August 07, 1999 10:23 PM
Subject: No Spark Spit


>
>Helpppppppp
>            I'm trying to get the new spit started. No spark, not anywhere.
>Not from plug wires,not from HT lead.
>             Installed new coil, new points, and new condenser. still nada.
>Wires to coil hooked up correctly. Voltage to coil ok. Voltage from coil
ok.
>wire from coil to distrib ok. Tried different plug wires from coil to
ground,
>No good. Tried piece of wire from coil to ground, no luck. Don't know
correct
>gap for Spit. I set them at .014.
>            Is it possible that the new coil is bad? Or the condenser? Is
>there any thing else Iv'e missed. Maybe utter some Incantations to the gods
>of Lucas, Sacrafice a spark plug or somthing?
>             Anyway any help is welcome, and as always TIA. At Least I
>thought of a name for the Spit
>
>Ken Copeland
>70 GT6+ KC78784
>70 Spit FDU84919  (Sparky) :o)


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