Thread: 2.25 petrol runs fine till it gets warm

Well well well.... I finally had to give in and get a mechanic involved.. It is a mate of mine.. does that count.. hehe

The heat up / cut out problem is with the points. After much fiddling and setting the old girl runs like a beauty. Idles like a Rolls and just when I was getting excited..

BANG.. B B BANG..

Anyway long story short it was the points.. as they heated up their internal? resistance made it impossible for the coil to work and the bang bang was when it finally did with all that unburnt air fuel mix in the chambers.. The other thing that was very dodgy was the amount of "play" in the distributor shaft. The timing mark was all over the shop moving up to 10 degrees from TDC in both directions.

I am now searching for a replacement dizzy.. probably out of Britian because it is only $90.00 landed versus $150.00 locally.. I hope to keep everyone posted on the results shortly..

Phil

Mate have a look at ebay uk there was a bloke on there selling a dizzy on there for next to nothing

I have inlaws there in the uk so if the post is sky high let me know and I will ask a favour of them

Also look at paddocks, craddocks or lr series to see if a new one is worth it

Adam

I bought 4 new distributors from Paddocks for 15 pound each ( around about the $40 mark) .....or was it Craddocks one of them anyway.....great dizzy, then I bought the electronic unit that fits into them from Gary CLR4wd...I have his phone # if you interested