> I'm trying to help a fellow TR6 owner. He has a 74 TR6, we have been
> chasing a rough running condition with no success.(He is getting very
> discouraged)
> The car runs rough under load (idles nice), but gets smoother once past the
> initial acceleration.
Foolish question Bob ... are you sure the dampers have oil in them and that it's
reasonably thick oil, not 3-in-1 ?
> Tried the test in nthe Haynes manual
> (with "key on open the points if a spark results = bad condensor").
That test is unreliable, IMO. The spark will be bigger with a bad condensor,
but at least on my cars, I can usually see a small spark even when the condensor
is fine. My Haynes calls it a "flash" when the condensor is bad.
> All the
> condensors we tried failed the test, so we are wondering
> A: Is the car ruining the condensors?
Seems very unlikely to me.
> B: If so, what would cause this?
I can't think of any fault that would cause the condensors to fail open.
> Food for thought, we purchased a Pertronix ign. As soon as we tried to start
> the car the Pertronix smoked. (We did NOT have the unit wired wrong = red to
> pos side of the coil, black to Neg side of the coil. Pertronix is sending a
> replacement, hoping we just got a bad unit????
Any chance the battery is installed backwards ? Or you somehow got a positive
ground Pertronix ?
Have you checked the primary resistance of your "12v" coil ?
Randall
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