Get in line...My brother drove his peachy IIa down to my house one weekend for some fellowship and a "tune up." We did the usual compression check and replaced the coil wires and made up a new low tension lead and all that. Replaced the points and got them gapped pretty good and went to start her up and nothing. Turned over for 10 minutes and nothing happened. Eventually I looked down at my hand and there sat the rotor. It was in my stupid hand the whole time!
>>> rgrant@cadvision.com 04/25/01 07:31PM >>>
I took the Border Collies and the SII off to the foothills this afternoon
for a hike. When I returned to the vehicle and tried to start for home I
became perplexed/puzzled/baffled/angry that the damn thing wouldn't start.
I must have cranked it for about ten minutes altogether before I decided to
get out and start checking.
Off with the distributor cap, check the points haven't slipped closed,
verify that the wires are all in position, check the leads on the cap and
to the plugs coil etc --- and then! only as I was putting the cap back on,
did I realize that the rotor was in my pocket and not in the distributor.
I'd removed it as an anti theft ploy and clean utterly forgot that I had
done so.
Forgetting wouldn't be so bad except I can't understand how I could have
the cap off for a good five minutes without seeing that the rotor was not
there. Where was my mind?
Rick Grant
Rick Grant Communications
International Media and Crisis Management
Calgary - Ottawa
www.rickgrant.com
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