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re: Erratic MGB

To: Colin Brace <BRACEC@A1.MGH.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: re: Erratic MGB
From: Keith Holdsworth <holdswo@io.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 06:34:04 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 27 Mar 1995, Colin Brace wrote:

>        Hi Jon,
>                   Perhaps I can help. Sounds to me like your distributor (or 
>its 
>        drive) is mounted 180 degrees out of position. Does the rotor point to 
>        the #1 terminal when you are at TDC? Is the piston at TDC (Shine a 
>        flashlight in the spark plug hole). Was the engine recently rebuilt? 
>        Maybe the distributor drive was put in 180 degrees out of position. If 
>        this all checks out OK, are the plugs so fouled with gas they won't 
>        fire? Hope this helps.
>        
>        Colin         WA1KWA
>        
>        bracec@a1.mgh.harvard.edu
>        
>        74 MGB
>        73 BMW 3.0s
> 
> 
> 
Tricky Problem! call John Twist <JOHNHTWIST@aol.com>

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