I've been experiencing a similar probelem in my TR6. My original problem
was a misfire on the first cylinder intermittently. I replaced my old coil
with a Lucas Hi Performance which had no effect on the misfire. I believe
my problem is distributor wobble and it may be the source of your problem as
well. I'll get a second opinion on mine within the next few weeks, but I
have another distributor to try first.
One thing that sort of confirmed this to me was that replacing the rotor and
cap almost totally eliminated the miss but only for 50 miles or so. I think
the shaft causes undo wear on the rotor and distributor points of contact.
I also installed an electronic ignition thinkin that no point breaker
riding against the shaft may help, but it didn't.
Hope this helps,
Bill
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From: Thomas Augustus Kimberly
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Subject: Accel coil, problems?
Date: Monday, July 03, 1995 8:44PM
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Subject: Accel coil, problems?
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From: gt8610a@prism.gatech.edu (Thomas Augustus Kimberly)
Subject: Accel coil, problems?
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I just installed a Accel something or another "performance" coil on my
TR6. (Its a nice pretty yellow :) I did this in my ongoing project of
attempting to rid myself of some of the random misfires and shyte that
haunt m'car. I figured that anything had to be better than the
twenty-three year old Lucas unit. Eris doesn't agree. Now she has
collected new misfires in new engine speeds. Does anybody have anyclue
what I might have done wrong? I merely removed the old coil and straight
replaced it with the new one. Coils are relatively generic items aren't
they? Is there any chance that the Accel coil that was designed primarily
for big nasty 'mericun V8s isn't compatible with my tractor engine?
If so would it work on our TR7? Now that I've installed it I can't get my
$25 back.
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