Hello, iv just purchased a tired looking tobacco leaf 1973 3500 with 22k miles from new !! which has been parked in a garden for the last 24 years !!
its on the road now all beit demanding copious ammounts of spanner work!
At some point somebody has fitted a lumenition optronic system but the fitting has been done by somebody at home.. i have just replaced all leads, dizzy etc but at high speed /revs the engine starts to die and comes back once it has slowed right down. it did this with the old leads and dizzy etc, mechanical pump is good and clean as a whistle, temp is good and constant. i have fitted a new coil too which is the correct ballast resist type but there seems to be, still fitted what looks like a condenser to the coil on the positive side with its body as the earth on to the car body using the same nut which holds the coil down. ( this was on the old ballast resisted coil so i re fitted it) should this still be on the coil for some part of the igniton system or should this have been consigned to the bin with the points etc?? did the condenser originally sit on the coil and not under the distributer when it was a points based system??
could this be whats killing the engine at high revs?
Many thanks keith.
its on the road now all beit demanding copious ammounts of spanner work!
At some point somebody has fitted a lumenition optronic system but the fitting has been done by somebody at home.. i have just replaced all leads, dizzy etc but at high speed /revs the engine starts to die and comes back once it has slowed right down. it did this with the old leads and dizzy etc, mechanical pump is good and clean as a whistle, temp is good and constant. i have fitted a new coil too which is the correct ballast resist type but there seems to be, still fitted what looks like a condenser to the coil on the positive side with its body as the earth on to the car body using the same nut which holds the coil down. ( this was on the old ballast resisted coil so i re fitted it) should this still be on the coil for some part of the igniton system or should this have been consigned to the bin with the points etc?? did the condenser originally sit on the coil and not under the distributer when it was a points based system??
could this be whats killing the engine at high revs?
Many thanks keith.