Is it confession time? After rebuilding my Spit many years ago I got it to
run but it had no power. I checked everything three times and worked on it
daily for over a week. Even had a friend with a spit to help troubleshoot
not no avail (no such thing as a list back then). Finally as I sat on the
front wheel looking at the dizzy one more time I saw the arrow on the rotor.
The bright light came on - I had set the wires clockwise vs
counterclockwise. A quick change of two wires and she roared to life!
Seems its always the simple stuff that grabs you.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Randall
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:14 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Won't start, out of ideas - solved
> At the risk of being banned from the list for incompetence, I'll
> tell you why
> the engine wouldn't start.
If it's any comfort, Bud, I once spent two days standing in the snow trying
to get a TR3 started after committing a similar faux pas. Borrowed the
dizzy cap & wires from my Dad's TR3 without noticing that it was wired 180
degrees from the one I was working on. Found the problem days later, after
towing the non-running car some 40 miles on the end of a rope (and about
freezing to death from the sub-zero air blowing through the floor boards)
... put the original cap & wires back on & it fired right up. My face was
red from more than cold !
Promptly got impounded for being driven without the proper registration ...
<G>
Randall
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