Listers,
Thanks to everyone for the help. I may have found the problem or part of
the problem. I removed the distributor cap and found some corrosion on the
contacts. Now this is a new dist. cap (1500 miles) so I am not sure why
there was a problem or if this was even the cause of the problem I was
having. I cleaned it up and adjusted the timing. The car now runs better
than it ever has. I adjusted the idle down but only got it to 1000 or 1100.
I thought I would try and get it down to 800 or 900 this weekend. Now I
think the timing was off and the lockdown may not have been tight enough so
the distributor may have moved while I was driving.
What does everyone think? Did I fix the problem by adjusting the timing and
cleaning the cap? Or do you think it was something else.
Kyle.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of James A. Tabor
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 7:18 AM
To: kkrice1@email.msn.com; triumphs@autox.team.net; 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TR6 started running poorly
hi,
i had a similar problem. reved fine, but when driving and
for me it was around 3500 rpm the engine would "buck" and kick
and actually seemed like it was cutting off.
i cleaned the fuel filter. helped, but not entirely.
check the dist. i think the rotor was i need of replacing.
never had the problem again.
but i did have a back fire at the carbs weeks later. just one
small POP at 80 mph. that was the because the diaphram in the
front carb was SHOT! torn in two places. which might have been
the problem before but somehow sealed the torn edges down.
so check those diaphrams.
hope this helps!
james
76 TR6
>From: "Kyle K. Rice" <kkrice1@email.msn.com>
>Reply-To: "Kyle K. Rice" <kkrice1@email.msn.com>
>To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>, <6pack@autox.team.net>
>Subject: TR6 started running poorly
>Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 11:35:16 -0700
>
>Listers,
>
>I had the 74 TR6 in a parade today and something strange started happening.
>At the end of the parade, I started driving down the road and when I let
>off
>the gas, the engine stoped running when it reached 1000 RPM, it started
>running again. The Tach continued to show the correct RPM but no engine
>braking telling me there was no ignition. It backfired once, I turned it
>off and let it sit for a while. Started it back up and it idled fine but
>again, it runs fine when pressing on the gas but once you let up on the
>gas,
>no ignition until it gets to 1000 RPM. Does this sound like an ignition
>problem or a fuel problem. I have a Crane ignition and everything is new
>in
>the car. It revs up fine with no cut out or problems. The car was not too
>hot and my electric fan did not come on until I shut the car down and the
>engine started to heat up due to heat soak.
>
>Any ideas????
>
>Kyle.
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