On 6/24/07, Frank & Sandy Crowe <thecrowes@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Other than replacing the distributor, I didn't see the rotor mentioned. The
> only time my TR3 has ever left me stranded (while showing off to my
> father-in-law no less) was due to a resistance through the rotor to ground.
> I had about 70Kohm resistance from the center metal contact to the little
> clip that holds it to the distributor drive shaft, thereby sucking all the
> spark from the plugs to ground! When it happened, it started missing on one
> cylinder, then two, then just died.
>
So far I've tried three different rotors, three different distributor
caps, three different sets of plug wires, three different sets of
points, two different sets of spark plugs, two different coils, three
different condensors, two different distributors.
--
Kurtis
Russellville, Arkansas
1963 TR4 - CT19389L
1959 AH Bugeye - AN5L23250
www.geocities.com/tr4_1963
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