11-05-2024, 11:49 AM
Right so old distributor and coil back on and.... it fired up instantly and now seems to be running better than ever, although I'm yet to take it for a proper run.
Quite seriously dissapointed with the electrical setup, given the car has entirely new wiring, battery, coil (3.5ohms), leads etc. I'm struggling to believe that trying to start it with the handle rather than the motor would prevent it from running, and bump starting made no difference.
The carb has ended up having a good clean and adjustment while fault finding which can't have done any harm.
I'm still not entirely confident in the old ignition set up as I randomly lost spark recently which seemed to come back just as randomly. Either way I'm in need of a decent back up distributor if anyone has something suitable (I'm not fussed if it's auto or manual advance).
Quite seriously dissapointed with the electrical setup, given the car has entirely new wiring, battery, coil (3.5ohms), leads etc. I'm struggling to believe that trying to start it with the handle rather than the motor would prevent it from running, and bump starting made no difference.
The carb has ended up having a good clean and adjustment while fault finding which can't have done any harm.
I'm still not entirely confident in the old ignition set up as I randomly lost spark recently which seemed to come back just as randomly. Either way I'm in need of a decent back up distributor if anyone has something suitable (I'm not fussed if it's auto or manual advance).