I was having a pint recently with a very old friend who has been working on classics for 50 years.
He's of the opinion that positive earth vehicles rust faster than negative earthed ones.
Any ideas on this??
There's a + and a - but unless it's earthed (they haven't been for years) then it shouldn't matter
With a dead capacitor/condenser you still normal get some kind of spark
Are the points fully opening and closing?
Yea the points appear to be opening and closing, when taking the dizzy cap off they are at different positions, from closed to open. Have the multimeter on them and when closed reading 12.4v and when open 0…
And I’m getting spark on the ht from...
The pin is still there. The coil was new last year, is there a positive and negative type, or just the way is wired up? I’m wondering if I’ve blown the condenser wiring it the wrong way round?
Ill assume that it's unknown if you have a pos or neg earth coil.
To isolate the fault I would suggest the following:
Put a plug lead into the coil HT connector with a properly earthed spark plug at the other end.
Turn the engine by hand until...
There's a very thin wire in the distributor that earths the points baseplate to the distributor body. This can break, resulting is nothing happening.
At this stage I suggest establishing if your coil is correctly wired and firing. Step 2 is spark...
Check you haven't lost the middle out of the distributor and that is still springy or it might not be making contact with the rotor arm.
From a fellow positive earther
Thanks for the reply, I’ve tried every feasible combination, but can’t seem to get a spark at the plug. It was all running before I stripped it down. It was a new coil, dizzy cap and arm before and new ht leads too…
The only thing I’ve done was...
Hi all, spent all day messing with this and still no joy!
Just putting back together my series 2 - positive earth: before I took it to pieces, the engineer fired and ran well.
Now started to reassembly and it won’t fire or spark. The wiring was...