On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Jane Burdekin wrote:
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> I tried that and the but not listening to whether it tried to catch or not.
> I'll try that. What I did notice was that the points were not moving.
> Don't the points open and shut as the dist. goes around? Its been a while
This sounds like a problem. Try resetting the points gap, and make sure
the lobe on the distributor is in "the right spot".
If you know what I mean, skip the next paragraph :-)
IE, figure out where the dizzy "opens" the points, set it at the highest
point, and set the gap. I think that's right. Sometimes the lobes on a
distributor open the points, and sometimes they close the points, so I
have to be vague. I've never examined the insides of a GT6 dizzy.
If I get this right, the points shut and charge the coil; they open, and
the field collapses in the coil, inducing a current into the secondary
circuit; the only place all those excited electrons can go is out the coil
wire, through the rotor, into the spark plug... ta-da! spark!
It could be that the points are not opening enough to get enough excited
electrons zooming through the spark plug wires. Just a guess.
-Malcolm
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