Paul :
My guess would be that one of those metal shavings is intermittantly
shorting out the points, or that the special wire from the side terminal
to the points has broken internally (which is not exactly common, but
does happen). Bad new condenser is another, remote possibility.
Randall
Paul Willoughby's Home wrote:
>
> I have just finished a tune-up of my 64 TR4. I replaced points, condenser,
> cap, rotor, plug wires - all purchased from one of the big 3 mail order
> suppliers. The car ran fine for 3 miles and died (in the middle of a busy
> So.Cal intersection).
>
> Upon taking off the cap, I noticed that there were metal shavings all over
> the outside of the distributer plate. Apparently, either the new cap or new
> rotor did not fit properly and cut grooves into the contact points inside
> the cap. I put on the old cap and rotor and it started right up, but almost
> immediately died again. I got it started once more and it ran fine for 30
> seconds at 2500 RPM. When I tried to bring the RPM down, it stalled again
> and now wont start.
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