T16 running problems

[andrew honychurch]

Thanks Lynn, all up and running once more . I replaced the rotor arm as I am sure that was shorting out and my best guess is that it got worse when it got very hot in the distributor. The reason I could not start it at all is that the second set of points were very very tight to achieve the correct Dwell which had then crusted up and eliminated the gap over the winter. All sorted now, but I cannot say that I have a great deal of confidence in the Divers Helmet with 70 year old rotor arms in. I am going to run it around a bit this week and discover whether I have solved the loss of spark when hot. Meanwhile I understand that there is a new aluminium billet electronic distributor, 2 or 3 bolt about to be launched. This will eliminate the weak areas of the older distributors and should be a great fix I am down for one and will try to report back when I have it.