[TR] The lady lives again.....

[Tony Drews]

You can pull a sparkplug and lay it against something bare metal 
(with the wire attached) to see if you have spark.  If no spark start 
working backwards...  Do the points open?  Check for voltage at the 
coil, etc.  If you have a spare coil laying around (doesn't have to 
be from a Triumph necessarily), you can connect it instead of the 
existing one.  If you put a test lamp on the plus side (or I should 
say battery side, may be positive ground) of the coil, it should 
flash as you turn the engine over - it will be on when the points are 
open and off when they are closed.  If it stays on or off, you know 
you have a problem with the circuit, not with the coil.

- Tony

At 02:12 PM 7/11/2010, David Templeton wrote:
>.....well almost.  Put the new battery in, it filled the tray almost
>perfectly :-).  Made sure the engine turns :-)  then hooked up the
>battery and turned the engine over to check on oil pressure ( 65+psi :-)
>)  This time turned the ignition on, using a little starter fluif, just
>wanted to see if she would catch.  Ignition on, all looks good, turned
>her over and nothing, would not catch.  My thought on this is a bad
>coil?  Thoughts?  How can I check, or is it, it either works or doesn't?
>
>Woo hoo, almost there
>
>David Templeton
>'59 tr3a - has a heartbeat doctor!!!
>
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