- 1. Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:47:44 -0800
- The '60 bugeye was running intermittently -- that is, it ran one day and not another. I was sure it was that the carbs were flooding trying to start in the cold weather, but I finally checked and voi
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00894.html (8,274 bytes)
- 2. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:54:21 -0800
- You thought you could replace a fine Lucas distributor with a new-fangled gizmo, and you actually believed that you would not have Joseph Lucas haunt and punish you? How naive! It is not nice to fool
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00897.html (10,547 bytes)
- 3. RE: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:01:46 -0500
- First of all, I don't wish anyone reading the following rant to take it Secondly, I don't seek to offend anyone. Keeping the above in mind, I offer the list my philosophy on Lucas electrics, based on
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00900.html (10,126 bytes)
- 4. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:24:51 -0800
- OK then......Why DO they drink their beer lukewarm??
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00901.html (7,846 bytes)
- 5. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:27:04 -0800
- Hey, Bud, I qualify in all four categories! However, I have found that the same exasperation with Joe Lucas' wizardry is felt around the world by folks far more expert, qualified, industrious, and sm
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00902.html (9,328 bytes)
- 6. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:30:27 -0800
- So you don't actually know if they'll run yet? Was it expensive? Do they have plastic floats now? BZ
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00903.html (7,851 bytes)
- 7. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:04:28 -0800
- Hello Chas, a couple of thoughts here.... 1) i used to have a pertronix.. loved it, BUT did you make sure that coil you are using is a 3 ohm coil as reccomended by pertronix? i made sure that i had t
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00904.html (9,505 bytes)
- 8. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:24:34 -0800
- Nope. Not to that point, yet. But I am ever the optimist. And besides, when Ian Foster gave me a tour of the plant, the workmen had the look of the traditional English craftsman you always read about
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00905.html (10,309 bytes)
- 9. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:22:33 -0500
- There is no + wire from the fuse to the dizzy. The + wire comes from the key switch to the coil. The - wire comes from the coil to the dizzy. If the white wire fried, check you ign swich, that is the
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00906.html (8,403 bytes)
- 10. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:42:12 -0000 reply-type=original
- The beer question .... So that you can hold the glass without getting frostbite or wet hands and taste the flavours lost in cooling. btw. It is not warmed, it is at cellar temperature, not at iceberg
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00908.html (8,628 bytes)
- 11. RE: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:31:44 -0500
- Actually, they don't. However, a truly GOOD beer (unlike the swill produced by major US breweries) tastes good at a temperature which won't freeze your taste buds, before they have a chance to tell y
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00915.html (8,248 bytes)
- 12. Re: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:24:11 -0800
- Doh. The + wire from the fuse block to the coil, of course. Yes, the white wire. Being before the fuse certainly explains why the wire fried and not the fuse. But it is correctly switched by the igni
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00916.html (8,708 bytes)
- 13. RE: Ignition Wiring Problem (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:38:09 -0500
- We've ALL qualified in those four categories, at one time or another. However, those who continue to "express exasperation with Joe Lucas' wizardry", no matter how "expert, qualified, industrious, o
- /html/spridgets/2005-11/msg00920.html (9,760 bytes)
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