Nah- not the spares...Lucas just likes to be contrary- if you expect it to
work, it wont, and if you expect it to not work, it will...
Scott
64 Herald 1200 Convoitabul
----- Original Message -----
From: <Chip19474@aol.com>
To: <david@dbrister.freeserve.co.uk>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: Rotor and caps Question
>
> In a message dated 01-02-01 06:35:33 EST, david@dbrister.freeserve.co.uk
> writes:
>
> << IMHO one should always have a spare rotor arm, points (I've had a set
> break up in use) and a condenser (once had one fail suddenly while
> setting carbs) in the glove box. That way it's not too difficult to get
> going again if the problem is not obvious and you don't have diagnostic
> kit. >>
>
> Agree, agree...a set of points, rotor and cap are always part of my trunk
> (boot) LBC spare tools/parts cache....learned that the hard way many years
> ago when the points in my 1966 Corvair arc-welded closed after the
condenser
> failed - the engine came to an abrupt stop on an expressway - didn't have
> spare parts but had some tools so I pryed the points apart, filed the peak
> down, reset them by eyeball and got home....funny thing - I never had an
> ignition related breakdown in any LBC I've owned....must be the threat of
> spare parts that keeps the gremlins away:)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chip Krout
> '76 TR6 CF57822U (chassis finished - busy grinding & sanding the body -
check
> out my progress by visiting
> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1270980)
> '70 Spit Mk3 FDU78512L (tucked away for a long winter's nap)
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