Steve, you still .have the same problems that Dave & I pointed out to you at
TRF when you had your car towed in for repairs, these are the same problems
you posted last week, why would we work 2 hours on your car for "FREE" show
you whats wrong and then you come back and post it twice to the list, you
were told at TRF that the dist. shaft was completely shot, it might make it
off the lot, it might not, you choose to drive away, now the ugly problem is
still there and you are still looking for a "FREE" way out. replace the
distibutor the way you were shown 2 weeks ago, a bad distributor shaft will
not correct it's self, even for a owner who wants to spend no money for
repairs at anytime, again this is proof that the vast majority of problems
with LBC"s are the owner/driver not the car, some people get what they
deserve, only the poor car suffers, and sometimes the "FREE" mechanics.
"FT"
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> Hello all!
> As you may recall, I had some problems with my Spitfire's points
> coming out of adjustment several times on the way back from TRF a
> couple of weeks ago. Well, I finally got back to my garage last
> weekend to fire it up and see what was going on. I tried starting
> it-it wouldn't catch. Sometimes it sounded like it WANTED to catch,
> but wouldn't. Checked the points and re-adjusted. Nothing. Examined
> the rotor and distributor cap, noticing that there were some metal
> shavings around where the cap and rotor had worn down a bit (too much
> for only 1500 miles!). Put in a new cap and rotor. Now the car starts
> after some cranking, runs for about 10 seconds on what sounds like 2
> cylinders, backfires maybe once or twice, then chokes itself out. I
> checked the coil and it was very hot-from what I remember, coils
> aren't supposed to be hot??? Checked for spark from the coil.. Not
> much really. Checked for spark from distributor to plug-I didn't see
> any, though I know there is one occasionally as car starts as above.
> Distributor shaft seems very wobbly, which I think may account for the
> metal shavings from the cap and rotor. So, what's the problem here?
> The way I look at it, it's either the distributor is so wobbly it's
> not making good contact with the distributor cap, the coil is bad, or
> both. Does this sound like a good assessment? I really don't want to
> change the distributor, as this is an expensive purchase, but it may
> come down to that. Anyone have any ideas? ;>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Steve Hall
>
> '70 Spitfire Mk III with a shaky Delco Remy distributor
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