Frank, I repair industrial electronics for a living, and there are all sorts
of ways that an electronic gadget can fail short of quitting altogether.
While electronic gizmos usually do just up and die, some times they just get
to where they don't act right. If you were able to keep using it, it would
very likely eventually die all the way.
Tom Zuchowski
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 10:53 PM
Subject: A miss
>I have another problem in one of my LBCs! So what else is new?
>This time it is a miss, sputtering, not a dead miss, in the A40 (1275
>Sprite engine)
>I have ruled out carburation and it is definatly distributor related.
>Petronix Ignitor with less then 1500 miles on it.
>Replaced plugs, still misses.
>Replaced cap and wires, still misses.
>Replaced whole dizzy but swapped out petronix into different dizzy
>and it still misses.
>Now I'm going nuts!!! I decide to put in a points dizzy (no more
>electronics) and the problem went away.
>So I put points and condenser on the original dizzy where the petronix
>was, original cap, rotor and wires. No more miss!
>So the electronic ignition is causing the miss.
>How is this possible? I thought it worked or it didn't.
>The car now runs better then ever, I had to lean out the carb quite a
>bit now that it has points. And I may just hit warp speed in the old
>saloon now!
>>From day one this car had the ignitor ignition and a ceramic ballast
>resistor coil (NOS Lucas)
>
>Anybody have any ideas?
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>Lots of LBCs
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
>
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