[Roadsters] Still stumped

[Pete Peters]

GB EI dizzy=Gary Boone Electronic Ignition distributor

So, no point or condenser. Doesn't eliminate the coil failing at high rpm's.

When you check the plugs, are they all the same?

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob Dicke
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:47 AM
To: Tim; datsun-roadsters: autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Still stumped

Tim,
Are you sure that it is a fuel problem and not ignition? If this car has
stock ignition I'd start with Point Dwell, then condenser, then points, then
coil. It would be cool if you could get the car on an ignition scope and see
what's going on at high RPM.

Bob

---- Tim <tputland at charter.net> wrote:
When I last ran my Roadster, it was still not running right. I had set the
timing,
re- balanced the carbs, and fixed the fuel mixture**. After this, it seemed
to be running well pulling strong through all the gears with no ping or
misses. Then, at about 75 or 80 mph, it started to do the hesitation/miss
thing again it was doing last week (when I was about half way home from
MidOhio -- I posted about this as you might remember). Based on what I had
read, I figured it was running lean so I pulled off the road (a few
times--this was last Sunday) and each during each stop slowly adjusted the
knobs and ended up just under a quarter turn to richen the mixture. After
the first and subsequent stops, it was again spitting/bucking/running rough;
too rich now I assume. I went home, re-set the fuel mixture back to where it
was above**. I was still not able to get the spitting and bucking to stop.

At this point it was getting too hot for me, both under the hood, in my
head, as well as outside so I parked the car. This is where I am at and have
not looked at the car since last Sunday.

When I had checked/"fixed" the timing last week while in Indiana, I do not
think I had done it right: The timing light I was lent was of the fancy
variety with a setting knob that I must have not used correctly. When I used
my light at home, the timing was up over 30 degrees of advance. I am now set
at 16 degrees on a de-smogged 70 1600 running a GB EI dizzy.

Any thoughts please.

Thanks

tim
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