[TR] TR4 "Sputtering"

spamiam at comcast.net spamiam at comcast.net
Fri Sep 18 10:35:11 MDT 2009


Brian,



The condenser could certainly be the problem.B  Also points, rotor, ignition
wires.B B  I had BAD luck with carbon core wires on a stock TR4A (and earlier)
cap.B  The little screws which spear the wires do not make a very good contact
with the carbon core and eventually fail (at least in my case they did).B  My
solution was an MGB push-in style cap and push-in style wires.B  That worked
REALLY well.



Also consider the little flexible wire that runs from the points to the
plastic lug on the side of the distributor.B  That can fray and fail without
appearing to be bad.



Fuel flow could be the problem, but something electrical is much more likely.



-Tony


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