<div dir="auto">My car ran rough, backfired and coughed under load, but did ok at low speeds. Replaced the condenser , ran fine for a few hundred miles, then failed again. Both were new Lucas units. Put in an old stock one, car ran fine until I replace with HD condenser. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 9:45 AM Max Heim via Mgs <<a href="mailto:mgs@autox.team.net">mgs@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Rough running, which was the stated symptom, as opposed to “not running”.<div><br><div>
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What do you mean by "intermediate state"?<br>
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I understand how it could make the car inoperable. I don’t see an
explanation for an intermediate state.
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Not true,
Max. When the points open, the condenser discharges
through the coil in order to perpetuate the spark.
Without the condenser the engine may not even start.
Try it some time. <span class="m_5125570201452341329moz-smiley-s1"><span>:-)</span></span><br>
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How do bad condensers cause rough running? All they do
is prevent the points from burning. Oh, you are saying
the points are burnt.
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Could coincidental, not causational. How old
is the condenser? Even if newish, there are
lots of crappy new Lucas parts out there. I
had three bad ones with similar results,
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<div dir="ltr">I've never
encountered a "bad fuel" problem
before, so I'm looking</div>
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confirmation (or not). The local
Mom-without-Pop store put</div>
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pumps, and one of the things
they're offering now is 92 octane
(US)<br>
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<div dir="ltr">alcohol-free
gas. I had about a quarter tank
in my MGA (w/MGB high</div>
<div dir="ltr">compression
engine) so I went to fill up. The
pump with the alcohol-</div>
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out of order! So I put in three
gallons of regular 92<span class="m_5125570201452341329Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">octane, and
about 1/4 mile from the station
started experiencing a lot</div>
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misfiring, mostly when
accelerating in 3rd and 4th. I
continued</div>
<div dir="ltr"><span><span class="m_5125570201452341329gmail-m_9075250362783882819ydpd1457413st">driving
like this for about 20 miles
to see if it would clear up
and it</span></span></div>
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did. I can't imagine it's
anything but the fuel, but
I've never</span></span></div>
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"bad fuel" situation like this
in 44 years of driving.</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span><span class="m_5125570201452341329gmail-m_9075250362783882819ydpd1457413st">The
fact that it started about 1/4
mile after leaving the station
seems</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span><span class="m_5125570201452341329gmail-m_9075250362783882819ydpd1457413st">like
pretty good evidence. Any
other possibilities? Is there
any option</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span><span class="m_5125570201452341329gmail-m_9075250362783882819ydpd1457413st">other
than to just burn through this
half tank of gas?</span></span></div>
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