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RE: MGB weak spark or the little engine that could...not start!

To: Edwin Vaughan <vaughme@mail.auburn.edu>
Subject: RE: MGB weak spark or the little engine that could...not start!
From: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:13:31 -0800
Yep!

clean the disturbitator and start again.

Kelvin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin Vaughan [mailto:vaughme@mail.auburn.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 1:36 PM
> To: 'MG NUTS'
> Subject: MGB weak spark or the little engine that could...not start!
> 
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> My '77B will not start. It turns over, has good compression, 
> the fuel pump
> is pumpin', the carb is receiving the fuel, and my coil is receiving
> the 12 V from the battery, though I don't know if it is stepping it
> up or not. It wants to start, its trying. However, while checking the
> spark I noticed it was quite week. My trusty Haynes manual 
> stated that a
> wet distributor could cause this. My heater-water valve does leak. Has
> anyone else had trouble starting their MG and find a leaky
> heater-water valve, which had soaked the distributor, to be 
> the culprit?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Edwin
> 
> "I try to think but nuthin' happens"         
> http://www.auburn.edu/~vaughme   
>                -- Curly (the stooge)
> 

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