12-05-2019, 08:55 PM
Good news Joe, on a similar note I have been suffering some inconvenient cutting out out in my Austin Twelve over the last few months which I have only just got around to sorting out today. The car is fitted with a taxi coil conversion, fitted at the side of the road (with wire, mole grips and tape) in Spain in the 1980s when the mag and the two spares ones we were carrying failed in the heat.
A few years later we fitted a discreet in line electronic ignition which has performed faultlessly ever since, particularly at providing instant starting. I assumed this unit had had enough after 30 years and given up. It turned out to be the coil (date stamped 1933)!
With a new one fitted normal service has returned.
I read how to test coils somewhere recently but cannot recall the procedure or where I read it.
A few years later we fitted a discreet in line electronic ignition which has performed faultlessly ever since, particularly at providing instant starting. I assumed this unit had had enough after 30 years and given up. It turned out to be the coil (date stamped 1933)!
With a new one fitted normal service has returned.
I read how to test coils somewhere recently but cannot recall the procedure or where I read it.