Are you sure it's not fuel related? bad filter, mis-adjusted floats?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Note" <tom623@glinenet.com>
To: "TR List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject: [TR] TR6 rough under power
> Hi all:
> "76 TR6 was running a little rough for my daughter, so today I pulled and
> cleaned/gapped plugs (they looked good),reset points, checked rotor, dist.
> cap and wires. Found one wire with high resistance whe moved around, so
> pulled and cleaned the terminal &cap socket and it was OK.
> Plugs. points, rotor and condenser have less than 500 miles on them.
>
> Took it for a test ride and everything was fine at first.Then I started
> driving it harder, running it up under full throttle thru the gears. all
> of a sudden it started to miss badly. Backed off and soon it smoothed out
> somewhat. Repeated, and happened again, but worse. Pulling choke out did
> not help.
>
> Turned around and headed home. For a while, I didn't think we were going
> to make it; miss got very bad with intermittent complete loss of power,
> then very rough, stumbling running. Almost like the ignition was being
> switched on and off rapidly. After running at light throttle for a minute
> or so, things got better and I made it home.
>
> Does this sound like it could be the condenser (even tho new), or maybe
> the coil? I don't see anything obvious like a loose coil wire, etc.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> TIA,
> Tom
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