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Re: [TR] Lucas ignition problem?

To: jimmuller@rcn.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Lucas ignition problem?
From: zoboherald@aol.com
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:34:28 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: jimmuller@rcn.com

  Andy Mace said:
> At this point, I'm thinking condensor.

Are we supposed to ignore the particular choice of words?  Are
you a frequent distributor of these witticism?

==AM==
Uh, Jim, how long have you been on this list? I'd have thought you 
would know me by now. ;-)
==AM==

If the points show good spark, you can rule out bad wiring or
connectors.  Sounds like the condensor.  It may be shorting,
which could account for the warm coil too, no?

==AM==
Pretty much what I was thinking, although certainly the rotor bears 
further scrutiny as well.

Meanwhile, thank to all for your suggestions. If it does turn out to be 
a bad condensor, it will be the first one I can recall experiencing in 
all these years (too many, really). I've no idea how old the various 
bits are, so I don't know if either rotor or condensor might be of the 
"bad batches" of same that have appeared in recent years. Maybe I'll 
just dig around and find another REALLY old one.... ;-)
==AM==

Jim Muller, condensing his answer so as to avoid generating any
tension

==AM==

--Andy Mace, still "plugging" away at the problem... (OK, I'll stop 
now!)

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