[Tigers] Tiger won't idle after a bout of hard acceleration

[Ron Fraser]

Rick

                Which distributor do you have – the early style with the oil port or the later style that has a tri-lobe center section?

There is a Ford ID # stamped into an embossed rectangle on the distributor.

 

I had a problem with an early style distributor because the cam in there was worn and would not let the distributor come all the way back to the Idle position.

 

Ron Fraser

 

From: R Flynn [mailto:flynnr2 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 3:11 PM
To: Andy Walker <awtiger at cox.net>; Larry Mayfield <drmayf at mayfco.com>; Ron Fraser <rfraser at bluefrog.com>; Tiger List <tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger won't idle after a bout of hard acceleration

 

Finally got a couple of hours with the Tiger today (which will probably be it until next weekend sadly) - a few updates:

 

- It wil begrudgingy idle on about 1/2 choke (I have a manual choke)

 

- Found the TDC & timing marks under a bit of rust (see photo)

- Could someone tell me the scale of the marks - 3 degrees each (can't see any numbers there)?

 

- At lowest idle (on choke) the timing light has the pointer just about the 4th mark (photo attached)

 

- Plugs look ok'ish (photo of no 2 plug attached)

 

- dizzy vac advance line itself doesn't leak, each end appears fit snugly

 

- distributor seems tight, does not seem to have shifted

 

 

 

 

 

 

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