Brian & Patricia LaVoie wrote:
> Is your distributer the points-less integrated amplifier type? I had a
> '75 Midget that would start right up and run fine until it warmed up.
> Then, if I turned it off, I would have to wait 20 minutes to a half-hour
> for the engine to cool down before it would start again. Once I replaced
> the distributer with an earlier points unit, the problem was gone.
> Apparently this is a common problem with the early inegrated amplifier
> distributers, which often failed when they warmed up (or so I've been
> told by folks in my local club).
This happened to my car exactly as scripted.
Just a note that you don't need to endure points to fix
this problem, installing a pertronix solved all problems
for me. I ran a points dizzy for a few weeks in the
interim, but the pertronix is the preferred fix.
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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