In a message dated 8/30/2008 11:49:34 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
TR250Driver@aol.com writes:
Hi Gang,
Weekend warrior here. I am still fighting this low rev miss in the TR6.
Perhaps I was a little hasty to think that the Dizzy was crap as was my
thought
last weekend. You know after 28 years of Triumphs on the road one would
think I should be able to defeat this but NO I am really stumped. I have
gone
thru the full route of fault diagnosis by part substitution with no
positive
effect. Wires, cap, rotor and then latest was a new point set & condenser.
You know what that got me? No spark! Really I had to put the old points
back
in for spark. The condenser does not appear to be playing any role. That
really stumps me. Are there bad point sets out there?
Another symptom perhaps related is that every now and then I only get a
click when I turn the key. I was thinking that the starter was going bad
and I
have another one on order but I wonder if that is an indication of another
fault? Battery cables etc are real clean.
Darrell
Darrell, for what its worth, I had this same problem on my 63 Jag. I was so
frustrated I borrowed a complete
ignition set (HT harness, distributor, coil) from a friends and installed it
in my car. It ran perfectly. I then started swapping my parts back in.
Here's what I found:
1. Coil-my brand new coil was defesctive. I replaced it with a Hi Voltage
coil.
2. Plug wires-my plug ends were arcing to ground. I replaced all theplastic
plug ends and carefully oriented the plastic plug ends so they weren't close
to ground.
3. My locally "rebuilt" distributor performed poorly.I sent it to ASNG
Barratt (jaguar) and exchanged it for a fabulously rebuilt Lucas dizzy.
also,I would be cautious with any new rotor. Theonly good ones I have found
come from the Distributor Doctor in the UK.
Best, Mike Moore
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