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Re: No Spark, 77 Midget

To: Bill Gilroy <w.gilroy@verizon.net>, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: No Spark, 77 Midget
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:32:24 -0800
References: <61538438994.20020318121818@verizon.net> <61538438994.20020318121818@verizon.net>
Biull -

I don't know if the 1500 dist. suffers from the same problem (rotor) that 
the 1275 with a 25D can, but, I got a bad batch of rotors that would 
develop micro-cracks after two - three weeks, shorting the coil pulse to 
the dist. shaft (ground).  Major PITA until I started grinding the little 
locating nub inside the rotor with a Dremel, until it was a slip fit (not a 
force fit) on to the shaft.  Symptoms were just like what you describe; run 
fine,  then die.

Clay L.
'67 Sprite

At 06:16 PM 3/18/2002 -0500, Bill Gilroy wrote:
>Hello Bill,
>
>Monday, March 18, 2002, 12:18:18 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>More information.  The car is running points, the original electronic
>ignition has been removed.
>
>The common theme of replies so far is that if I have a short to ground
>in the LT circuit it is most likely a bad condenser.  If I disconnect
>the LT circuit from the dizzy, and test at the white wire with the
>black tracer, I still have a circuit to ground.    At this point I
>have removed the dizzy and the coil from the circuit. I guess that means I
>have a short somewhere else.  I guess the next spot is to pull the
>tach and see if there is a short to ground at that point.  Make sense?
>
>Am I missing anything?
>
>--
>Best regards,
>  Bill                            mailto:w.gilroy@verizon.net
>
>
>
>PS.  The car just seemed to die, no stumble, no backfire.

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