PepijnWK
Active Member
The Rover 3500 has a sd1/triumph tr8 injection engine with a lucas 35DE8 distributor and a blue bosch coil. The injection part is of and back to carbs . There is no ballast resistor installed nor the ballastwire is in place. coil gets hot.
I am suspecting the coil or the distributor. Did I fry it not using a ballast resistor so giving it 12 volts the whole time instead less (9volts?) Or did the coil fail in such situation?
What can i do solve this?
I was thinking of buying a lumenition kit. but does anybody know what to buy without ballast resistor? Or should a buy a ballast resistor? could that be the main cause?
thanks for your answers!!
I am suspecting the coil or the distributor. Did I fry it not using a ballast resistor so giving it 12 volts the whole time instead less (9volts?) Or did the coil fail in such situation?
What can i do solve this?
I was thinking of buying a lumenition kit. but does anybody know what to buy without ballast resistor? Or should a buy a ballast resistor? could that be the main cause?
thanks for your answers!!
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