<div dir="auto">Yes Stephen, as is always the case with intermittent drivability issues, it never does when you need it to 😳.<div dir="auto">Of course it's that old "Prince of Darkness" thing again ... for goodness sake the roror was probably only 50 or 60 years old   ... just plain junk🤣🤣🤣</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed., Oct. 5, 2022, 1:25 p.m. Stephen Hutchings, <<a href="mailto:s.hutchings@rogers.com">s.hutchings@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Michael,</div>I jdrove my Healey across the country (Canada) back in 1979. I had an intermittent mis-fire all through Ontario., then it cleared up. When the car quit completely in Alberta, it turned out to be the rotor, but like your experience, it took a while to diagnose. This would have been an original Lucas rotor….so I guess they sometimes fail intermittently, like a coil, making the process of elimination quite difficult.<div><br></div><div>Stephen BJ8<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 4, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Salter <<a href="mailto:michaelsalter@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">michaelsalter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">For all of those who, I'm sure, have been having endless sleepless nights trying to decide what could be causing my mysterious misfire problem I have the solution.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">It was the distributor rotor!!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">After making various other tests, I found time today to install a "mule" set of cap, leads and rotor and the problem was immediately resolved ... even to the extent that the idle speed, which I had found necessary to increase, needed to be readjusted back to its original settings. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I then reinstalled the original 65 year cap, leaving the replacement rotor and all was well.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">My past experience with rotor failures, mostly from the poorly made cheapo repos, was immediate and total ignition failure. The failure of his rotor, a very old Lucas original, manifested itself very differently with the problem starting out as a very intermittent misfire which, over a period of several hours, became increasingly worse. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Why the misfire vanished completely at least three times after refueling remains a complete mystery to me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you to everyone who made numerous very helpful suggestions. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">All part of the "rich tapestry of life" I presume.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">M<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 7:02 PM warthodson--- via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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