Well, I was pondering heading out to the mountains today and have some fun in
the twisties. Good thing I didn't because trouble was a brewing.
I decided to wash my car instead of drive the mountains. It began raining
shortly after I finished washing the car, so I hurriedly got into the car and
sprinted back to campus to get into the parking deck. As I was punching the
throttle out of the lot, for some awful reason my engine decided to torque
backwards, and the bottom of my engine-driven fan made contact with the
radiator. I was completely dumbfounded as the motor mounts and tranny mounts
are all in excellent condition, and I wondered how my engine could have tilted
enough to bridge the 3/4" gap between the fan blades and the radiator. The
radiator is in pretty rough shape, and I will likely get a used radiator from
my local parts source. No sweat here! Just about $100 and I'll be back on the
road. Kinda sucks though, because my radiator was in excellent shape and kept
the temp on the N regularly, even in the 90+ degree heat.
Well, that wasn't the end of it. As I'm making my way back to campus (soaked
from head to toe from the rain), my damn points decided to give out after less
than 1000 miles of service. This has occurred so many times now, I have lost
count. Usually they last around 3000 miles, but this is quite pathetic. My
ground strap is in good shape, the dizzy is new, have installed new
points/condenser about 5-10 times in last 15-20k miles. yes, the points are
the correct ones.
Anyway, I have decided that points are the work of the devil. I want to go
electronic ignition. My main question is this: Will electronic ignition solve
my problems, or am I just throwing money at a problem, that I don't know the
cause of?
I've heard the Petronix ignition kits are a good replacement. Any yeas or nays?
now my car is parked here in a slightly bad part of town, but I don't care if
some stupid fool spends an hour trying to start the car, because it won't work
with bad points. Besides, once he/she gets the car started, it will run like
crap, because I don't have my choke cable installed. Why steal a horribly
running MGB, when you can steal a Lexus from down the street?
Happy Jay
"still happy, because I have to have good stories to tell my kids when I get
older"
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Jurgen Hartwig, Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech
<paraindent><param>left</param>When you were born you cried
and the world rejoiced
Try to live your life so that
when you die you will rejoice
and the world will cry.
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