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Car Forum / MINI / July 2003The coil
I have just spent the week swaping bits on my engine. put it back in the car and the bugger wont start. Joy! i have gone over everything and it all looks fine. But i have noticed the coil gets extremly hot? any ideas. also timing wise you do count anticlockwise for the leads? i am starting to doubt myself. any help would be appreciated. Cheers Aaron > I have just spent the week swaping bits on my engine. put it back in > the car and the bugger wont start. Joy! i have gone over everything > and it all looks fine. It's playing with you, like a cat with a mouse..... > But i have noticed the coil gets extremly hot? Ahhh, a clue! This means that it is definitely getting power to the coil. However, if the motor is not running and it stops with the points closed, it may not mean anything special... > any ideas. also timing wise On the other hand, if you've been playing with the distributor, it is VERY easy to fit the point wrong so that even when they open, they remain electrically closed. Pull off the distributor cap and turn the ignition on. With an insulated handle screwdriver (careful not to rest your finger tip on the steel shaft) push the points open and see if there is a small spark. If they're already open, short them together with the tip of the screwdriver, then remove it. Once again, look for the small spark. If there's no spark, odds are you've got the insulators in the wrong order under the points. > you do count anticlockwise for the leads? The rotor button rotates anticlockwise. Because it is possible to fit the dsitributor drive shaft in any of 8 wrong positions as well as one right one, it is entirely possible that any of the four cylinders corresponds to the top lead, but the order, anticlockwise, should be 1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4 ..... > i am starting to doubt myself. If no one else has had any opportunity to interfere, then thats a good place to start. 8-) Remember that there aren't any people who "don't make mistakes", just people who "don't make as many mistakes any more". any help would be appreciated. > Cheers > > Aaron Thanks for the help, i am going to go and get a new set of points and plugs today as i am in the mind that i may have turned them to scrap. so new it is. if she wont run then, i will call in the experts again. Cheers Aaron > I have just spent the week swaping bits on my engine. put it back in the car > and the bugger wont start. Joy! i have gone over everything and it all looks [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Aaron ok we have new points plugs and condensor. still no kick? there is spark at the plugs so i am now disconting the electrics. there is plenty of fuel in the bowl, only thing i cant test is compression, i have swaped heads and carbs, new head gasket so i am totally at a loss as to why it is not doing anything. cheers Aaron > I have just spent the week swaping bits on my engine. put it back in the car > and the bugger wont start. Joy! i have gone over everything and it all looks [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Aaron > ok we have new points plugs and condensor. still no kick? there is > spark at the plugs so i am now disconting the electrics. there is > plenty of fuel in the bowl, only thing i cant test is compression, i > have swaped heads and carbs, new head gasket so i am totally at a loss > as to why it is not doing anything. Is the spark occuring at the right time? i.e. at the leads on the dizzy in the wrong place like 90/180/270 degrees out? Rotate them all around a place on the dizzy cap and see what happens. splam arron give me a call on sat morning my numberr is in the back of the club mag promotions officer and i'll come have a look for you makka > > ok we have new points plugs and condensor. still no kick? there is > > spark at the plugs so i am now disconting the electrics. there is [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > splam Thanks for that makka, i have it running now, it is just running like a bucket of crap! something to do with timing. Doogie has put his hand up to have a look. By the way i am now in control of the Mini car club website so if you have any pics please send them to me. as i will need all the pics i can to build it. Cheers Aaron > arron give me a call on sat morning my numberr is in the back of the club > mag promotions officer and i'll come have a look for you [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > splam thank F*CK for that the website that is and yeah doogie should sort it easy he has played with heaps of them makka > Thanks for that makka, i have it running now, it is just running like a > bucket of crap! something to do with timing. Doogie has put his hand up to [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > > > > > splam |
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