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1. [Spridgets] Ignition fault - Lucas electronic DM system (score: 1): Author: Weslake1330@aol.com; Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:35:42 EST; Hi List, Any bright ideas on this one? I have a Lucas DM series electronic distributor on my carb s engine with a combined coil and ignition pack. Ib ve recently fitted a new coil HT lead and the dis; /html/spridgets/2008-01/msg00493.html (8,269 bytes)
2. Re: [Spridgets] Ignition fault - Lucas electronic DM system (score: 1): Author: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:46:11 -0600; I have had a distributor pickup in my 1987 Plymouth Duster 2.2 fail exactly in this manner. It is a temperature-related failure. Please realize that when it dies completely (as it probably will even; /html/spridgets/2008-01/msg00498.html (9,580 bytes)
3. Re: [Spridgets] Ignition fault - Lucas electronic DM system (score: 1): Author: "Chris King" <cbking@alum.rpi.edu>; Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:03:39 -0800; Problem with the remote amplifier? I heard the DM has the old GM HEI 4-pin module in it. (I haven't opened mine to check.) They're pretty cheap to replace, may be try that? -=Chris Chris King http:/; /html/spridgets/2008-01/msg00505.html (8,804 bytes)
4. Re: [Spridgets] Ignition fault - Lucas electronic DM system (score: 1): Author: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:54:41 -0800 (PST); Same symptoms last June on racecar, practice day at Blackhawk Farms, with stock points though. Changed everything one at a time, it was the coil. Unless PPP recalls otherwise? Ron ___________________; /html/spridgets/2008-01/msg00512.html (7,936 bytes)
5. Re: [Spridgets] Ignition fault - Lucas electronic DM system (score: 1): Author: Weslake1330@aol.com; Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:33:45 EST; Ok thanks for all the responses on this. I can understand a temperature related failure but NOT how it recovers until the next time. Also after breaking down at about 10 minutes it will then for an h; /html/spridgets/2008-01/msg00591.html (10,234 bytes)
6. Re: [Spridgets] Ignition fault - Lucas electronic DM system (score: 1): Author: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>; Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:48:22 -0600; I can't remember what the tach does. Unfortunately, the tach is your best diagnotic tool at the moment. Since the tach is monitoring pulses at the coil, if the pickup ceases to turn the coil on and; /html/spridgets/2008-01/msg00593.html (9,055 bytes)
7. Re: [Spridgets] Ignition fault - Lucas electronic DM system (score: 1): Author: "Dave G." <dmg@bossig.com>; Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:57:14 -0800; FWIW... I've been in the electronics game for over 50 years... Your symptoms are very indicative of a poor electrical solder joint or a hairline break in a wire. It gets hot... the connection opens..; /html/spridgets/2008-01/msg00595.html (8,606 bytes)
8. Re: [Spridgets] Ignition fault - Lucas electronic DM system (score: 1): Author: Weslake1330@aol.com; Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:21:53 EST; Ok, I do seem to recall the tacho dropping like a stone. Friday night I'll run the engine in the garage (with the doors open) till the fault is manifest. I'm expecting it to be the pick-up rather tha; /html/spridgets/2008-01/msg00610.html (8,499 bytes)

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