[Healeys] 62bt7

[Ronald J. Ray]

Kurt,

The exact thing happened to me.
The only thought I had was the distributor bushing was worn causing the air
gap between the edge of the rotor and the plug wire contacts to vary, and
possible even the edge of the rotor touching the pug contacts.  Maybe this
caused the black residue to occur.

I always care 2 or 3 spare rotors, although I didn't have one with me when
it happened to me.

I have not done anything about this yet.
And I have no plans to install electronic ignition.

Any thoughts by others would be appreciated.

Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces+ronald-ray=sbcglobal.net at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+ronald-ray=sbcglobal.net at autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Kurt Leslie
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 5:51 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] 62bt7


Took my healey for a ride yesterday bt7, was a hot day but temp in car
ok no traffic. On the way home the engine started skipping on
acceleration and stopped completely within a few miles and I assumed
fuel pump, but it was not it was electrical. Removed distributor cap and
rotor had no real wear, less than 300 miles on cap, rotor,points and
condenser, however there was a small amount of black arcing dust on the
heal of the outer rotor contact, put spare rotor in and started and ran
fine, I am still not sure what happened as the rotor looked ok to begin
with any ideas? Perhaps the hot weather effected the condenser?  Kurt