TIGEROOTES(at)aol.com wrote:
> Steve,
> Along with removing the oil pan, disassemble your distributor. It is
> likely an object like a nut or washer dropped down into the lower portion of
> the distributor casting and jammed between the advance counterweights and the
> casting: sometimes the distributor explodes...sometimes it is the
> gears...sometimes only the driving dog or the split pin sheers. I have
> worked on hundreds of English cars, and the experience you describe is
> identical to three others I have seen: the last person doing a tune-up
> dropped a nut while changing the points...oh well!
> Jim Leach, Seattle
Jim:I had changed out the points and installed an Allison electronic ignition
months earlier. What you describe makes sense, but I hadn't even had the
distributor cap off since the conversion so I can't figure what might have come
loose, if this is the case. Could something have happened at the camshaft?
Another clue, although I don't know if this is related or not, is that my valve
adjustments had kept changing. Each time I've gone in to check these, they were
different, the general tendency being to get tighter, although there was always
one or two that had loosened up! Does this make any sense from your experience?
Steve Sage
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