[Mgs] MGA coil

[Paul Hunt]

You need to clip a timing light onto the coil lead and each plug lead and 
check that it flashes as you crank.  Even then it could be points or 
condenser.  After cranking for even a short while the plugs should smell 
strongly of fuel.  If no fuel smell then no fuel is getting through to the 
cylinders.  If they are wet then it is flooded, but you can usually smell 
that anyway.  Is the choke functioning?

A coil gets pretty warm in normal running, too hot to touch if the ignition 
is left on with a stopped engine as the crank usually stops such that the 
points are closed.

PaulH.

----- Original Message ----- 

>I am tring to find out why my engine will not start.