On 7/1/2010 7:02 PM, Brad Fornal wrote:
> Could the bushings in the dizzy be shot, allowing the points gap to vary?
>
>
> What was wrong?
> 73 Midget, stock. Friend's car that was running perfect last summer.
> New gas tank. This year it would fire up, run for about 2 seconds
> and die.
>
So what was it you might ask?
I also had to know.
Some DPM (dumb previous mechanic) And a local LBC mechanic that gets
paid to do this replaced the ground wire inside the dizzy, I saw it and
that it was new and tight. What I did not see was that it went from
dizzy plate screw to the other plate screw keeping the advance plate
ungrounded.
This wire should be soldered to the advance plate. It is now and it
works fine.
You never know just what you will find and that even though it was
*rigged* it did work for a few months. My guess is that it was grounding
through the spring contact under the advance plate every now and then
and as soon as the plate moved a bit, the ground went away.
Frank
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