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Re: TR6 electronic ignition

To: "LBOTTOM2" <LBOTTOM2@aol.com>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: TR6 electronic ignition
From: "Martin" <mxgo@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 07:34:42 -0800charset="iso-8859-1"

>Recently placed an Ignitor Electronic Ignition into my TR6...fits under the
>distributor cap and replaces the points and condenser. Started right up,
but
>ran horribly. After a couple of spins around the block I took off the cap
and
>found it filled with dust and that plastic around the contacts had been
broken
>away in a couple of spots. Took it out, put back the old guts, checked the
>point gap, advanced the timing to 12 BTDC and now it is running like a top.
Is
>this common with the Ignitor system or did I do something wrong? Not much
to
>putting it together, so I can't see what I did wrong there. Thanks...
>
>Steve Longbottom
>Media, Pa
>72 TR6
>75 TR7
>
The same thing happened to me in my '73 TR6, the the electronic ignition
unit just did not fit under the rotor cap.

Martin Gonzales
73 TR6


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