Thread: S1 "connie-sue" is sick and I need help:(

Originally Posted by The ho har's

'connie-sue' has a 2 ltr motor which runs perfectly most of the time.

We did a run to our SLOW meeting today and she died about 1.5 kms from the meeting. We stopped at the red light and when I went to take of the was no accelerator and she died, the coil was hot. We have purchased another coil before we came home and got to the bottom of the driveway when I slowed again for the bump and stopped. The trip is around 35 kms.

She did backfire when I tried to start her on the driveway.

Any ideas friends

Mrs hh

hi check the dizzy bottom plate for wear or movement jim

Originally Posted by The ho har's

'connie-sue' has a 2 ltr motor which runs perfectly most of the time.

We did a run to our SLOW meeting today and she died about 1.5 kms from the meeting. We stopped at the red light and when I went to take of the was no accelerator and she died, the coil was hot. We have purchased another coil before we came home and got to the bottom of the driveway when I slowed again for the bump and stopped. The trip is around 35 kms.

She did backfire when I tried to start her on the driveway.

Any ideas friends

Mrs hh

Welcome to the wonderful world of series 1 ownership, you will want to do this to connie-sue after a while

Lucas is another word for

Clean and check all of your ignition connections , start at the battery and make your way through to the coil and onto the dissy

Did the coil actually get cooked or is it still producing a spark? Hot coils can be caused by excessive dwell on the points - point gap too small. If the screw that holds the points comes loose, it can cause a gradual closing of the point gap, heating of the coil, and ultimately coil failure and a parked car, low power, hard starting, etc.

If that is ok, the you could have got unlucky and the coil has died due to an internal short.

Did the new coil also die - I couldn't quite work that bit out?

Cheers - Gav.

Originally Posted by The ho har's

'connie-sue' has a 2 ltr motor which runs perfectly most of the time.

We did a run to our SLOW meeting today and she died about 1.5 kms from the meeting. We stopped at the red light and when I went to take of the was no accelerator and she died, the coil was hot. We have purchased another coil before we came home and got to the bottom of the driveway when I slowed again for the bump and stopped. The trip is around 35 kms.

She did backfire when I tried to start her on the driveway.

Any ideas friends

Mrs hh

I had the same problem when I picked up my 80", it died on the delivery run. Turned out that the distributor clamp was not tight & it had moved & re-timed itself, quite spectacular the back fires where.

This weekend Thomas (107") decided to not start, just no sign of life at all. Removed the bonnet & a spark plug, then turned over on the starter & no spark visible on the plug resting on the exhaust manifold - got to love a removable bonnet.

Changed the coil and all is well, but was still a bit of a drama, as the old coil had terminals marked CB for contact breaker, & SW for switch. New coil had + & - markings. Good old AULRO revealed that for a Pos + earth vehicles this is CB = - & SW = +. Mine is negative earth & so the opposite. All is good now though & he is working a treat. Good luck.

Cheers
Nigel

Originally Posted by bacicat

Did the coil actually get cooked or is it still producing a spark? Hot coils can be caused by excessive dwell on the points - point gap too small. If the screw that holds the points comes loose, it can cause a gradual closing of the point gap, heating of the coil, and ultimately coil failure and a parked car, low power, hard starting, etc.

If that is ok, the you could have got unlucky and the coil has died due to an internal short.

Did the new coil also die - I couldn't quite work that bit out?

Cheers - Gav.

No we didn't put the new coil in as we were home. we will look and see for fixes.

Mrs hh

Thanks to all that posted

we will work through the suggestions and hopefully work out the problem

Mrs hh