Could also be signs of a coil getting ready to croak.
Al Salvatore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Massey" <105671.471@compuserve.com>
To: <TR250Driver@aol.com>
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: TR7 just quits?
> Message text written by INTERNET:TR250Driver@aol.com
> >Ugly, my 76 Victory Edition TR7 just quit running while on a run a few
> weeks
> ago. The tach went to zero but the radio was still blasting. I pulled her
> to
> the side of the road, took a depth breath, stuck my tongue out and tuned
> the
> key and she started right back up and I was once again on my way.
However,
>
> since I was mouthing off about reliability and originally I can't let this
> go. I
> am thinking that the original Lucas Opus electronic ignition is beginning
> to
> crap out like they are so well known to do or maybe the notoriously weak
> ignition switch is shorting. I had a guy work on the A/C a few months ago
> and he
> told me she would not start one time and later fired right up.
> <
>
> Darrell, even though the radio was still playing doesn't mean the problem
> is not in the ignition switch. The contact that powers the radio is
> different than the one that powers the othe switched loads. Remember that
> the key has a position that will play the radio alone and the next
position
> will power up the ignition along with the heater, wipers, reverse lamps,
> etc. It is possible that the keyswitch is at fault (or even the key
turned
> ever so slightly towards the off position). When the car quit did you
> notice if you had any gauges? Heater fan?
>
> Many years ago I had a coworker who drove a VW. He also smoked a pipe.
He
> told me one day he was driving along and started to clean his pipe with
his
> pipe cleaning tool that was on his key ring when his car died. He soon
> realized that his fiddling with the key ring caused his key to move to the
> off position.
>
> Also, my TR6 and my MG many years before had intermittant ignition
> switches. And ignition switches are easier to replace than the ignition
> module.. Cheaper, too.
>
> Dave Massey
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