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Re: Early TR4 electric question

To: leyte@lvs.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Early TR4 electric question
From: "" <greenman62@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 12:33:18 FILETIME=[0956D220:01C0EA97]
>For those who may be able to help, please read on...
>
>On my TR4 CT3795LO on the driver side inner fender, there is bolted a white
>ballist resistor (or so my brother the mechanic call it). It reminds me of 
>the
>items we used to discharge batteries on remote control race cars a few 
>years
>back. It is approx 3 inches long and 1/2 inch square, made of a porcelin 
>type
>of material and has a spring with a porcelin bar running through the center 
>of
>the spring. This porceline bar is broken in two.... Any idea what voltage 
>is
>going in and going out??
>
>It plugs between the coil and distributor as I recall (the car is 2 hours
>away, I can't verify this till this weekend). The question is, was this
>something a PO added for some reason? Or is it a replacement for a 
>different
>type that I have not found in the parts books yet? Is it replacing a 
>voltage
>regulator like the one I found in the TR4 Vicky Brit book TC.39, page 121 
>PN
>2-900?
>
>The good news is once this issue is resolved, and we get the linkage back 
>on
>the carbs this puppy is on the road! Oh Yeah!
>
>Thanks all,

  Gary et al...

   That doesn't sound like anything that came on my `62 TR4 (CT4852L).

   Unless it's something that came with yours for the OD, my guess it's
   probably a DPO addition...

Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois       1962 TR4 (CT4852L)

That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...


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