I'm having trouble with the vacuum advance on my 1978 US spitfire with
the stock Lucas 45D4 distributor with an Allison Electronic Ignition. I
hadn't checked the timing for about 2 years due to a broken timing
light. I recently bought a new one and found that my initial timing was
spot on, but
I found an insurcnce auction for a '77 Spitfire with light rear damage. I has
~33,000 iriginal miles and looks very nice. The current bid is $2,700 and can
be seen at:
http://www.ridesafely.com/Inventory.asp?InventoryID=508072749
The thumbnail pictures are not viewing correctly, but will open when
I was about to say that's too much to pay for a damaged Spitfire, but the
photos do show the damage evident will require a rear tail light panel and
some body work on the trunk belly pan. Oh, and a rear bumper. That's
about it. I've done that sort of repair before and it's not that terrible
to
That low tech method can be very useful at times.
To diagnose a problem without lots of fancy test
equipment, you have to be willing to use all your
senses,
and a surprisingly large number of body parts.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
I have also checked for a
vacuum leak in the
hose and carb fitting by
I have the first Dan Masters wiring block in my T/R that he installed about 6
years ago, lots of fuses, relays, complete with bells and whistles, driving to
the store today I suddenly had a alarm sound coming from under the dash,
checked my safety cutoff switches and they were all correct, pulled
At 07:52 AM 8/8/2005 -0400, Greg Rowe wrote:
I'm having trouble with the vacuum advance on my 1978 US spitfire with
the stock Lucas 45D4 distributor with an Allison Electronic Ignition.
But when I disconnect the vacuum advance, the problem goes away.
It seems to me that the timing is jumping
