[TR] Spit: Lucas electronic ignition

[Tim Gaines]

My 1980 Spit has left me stranded several times over the 
last few years, always with no spark.  I have always found 
that playing with the bolts holding the Lucas amp module 
down eventually restores the spark.  I assumed the problem 
was that the module was losing its ground connection. 
 Last time I had the problem I took a lot of time to clean 
the connection and even added a ground wire.  Well, I 
recently got stranded again, played with the module a bit, 
got going again and drove home, now can't get a spark, and 
my meter shows that the module is clearly grounded.  So 
has my fiddling in the past been accomplishing something 
unrelated to grounding, or does the electronic ignition 
fail this way, with intermittent stops and starts 
regardless of what I do?  Have any of you experienced this 
before?

Thanks for any advice, and happy holidays to everyone. 
 Can you believe I was driving the TR6 top down yesterday 
here in the warm south?!  Sorry to rub that in.  Yeah, 
yeah, I know that cold weather is back in our forecast in 
a couple of days.

Tim
Clinton, SC
1980 Spit
1974 TR6