[TR] Troubleshooting Help

[wbeech at flash.net]

Terry,
I didn't see the advice go by on the list so I will give it here.  WD-40 was
designed for Water Displacement(WD?), I always carried a can in my old
Hillman Minx.  After a stall-out and no-start from a rain or large puddle a
good liberal soaking of WD-40 usually did the trick, at least well enough to
get me home for a thorough drying out. 

Glad to hear you are back on the road!

Bill Beecher
'58 TR-3A TS/30766 L (On the road in 2009!)
"A Triumph is man's best friend, it always comes when it is called...of
course, some times it is difficult to make it go"



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Subject: Re: [TR] Troubleshooting Help

>So...what's more likely to give even after drying out...the Pertrinox 
>or the coil?B

Coil shmoil.B  Got the car home this morning where I could work on it.B
Replaced the distributor cap and it started and ran with power.



Don't think it was the cap, though I'm tossing the old one anyway.B  Think
maybe it was the tip of the coil wire where it screws into the cap.B  I
snipped the end off all the wires before refastening them to the new one.B
Am
wondering if there was corrosion in there.B  Would account for the weak
spark.



Learned something else last night alongside the road.B  The distributor cap
I
carry for a spare doesn't have the screws in it, and they're a difference
size
from the cap that was in the car.B  Hmmmm....



Need to order a new Standard cap.B  Also, does anyone remember where to get
those good, dependable brown rotor caps?



Terry Smith, '59 TR3A

New Hampshire
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