Awesome find Frank, it is so cool to hear stuff like this.
Lin
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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