[TR] My dad can beat up your dad

[Frank Fisher]

yes
felt the same way last time i did that with my shoe lace.
Frank
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Sent: Sat, October 2, 2010
4:25:56 PM
Subject: [TR] My dad can beat up your dad

I'm a competitive guy. 
Get put down, jump up and try again.

...So.

When I read the definition of
the word MORON in the index of a Triumph repair 
manual, I thoughts to m'self,
"I can one-up that!"  Never mind which manual.

I was stranded a few days ago
in the Hannaford grocery parking lot.  Took off 
the distributor, noticed
right off that the brush on the distributor cap was 
down to zero.  Couldn't
believe it was still running.

So I swapped out the distributor cap but I
didn't want to do it right.  Instead, 
paying very careful attention not to
cross the wires, I somehow managed to do it 
anyway.  Got the same exact
symptons of no fire, no start as the original 
problem. Must be something else
than the brush.

Checked and rechecked the timing.  Swapped to points. Thank
you Ed and Lee, I 
needed both because I'd also managed to bugger up the screw
holes in my original 
plates, so thanks to you now have one good one for
running and one for the 
spare, ...and one (the old one) for the local garbage
man.

Nothing.

Rechecked the spark at the wire, then the plug.  Good. 
Fuel...good to the 
carburator.  Pulled the floats.  Blew through clear. 
Good.

Rechecked the timing again.  Finally noticed that at TDC, the rotor
pointed to 
the #1 tube like it's supposed to, but the next junction went to
#2, not #3.  


Swapped the wires and started right up.  That is one sweet
sweet sound.

Next time I'm in Philadelphia, I'm going to run up the steps to
the Rocky 
Memorial again, pump my fists in the air, because I am #1!!!  Well,
that is 
unless I got my wires crossed again!

Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
New
Hampshire

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