| HT Leads are Taylor Spiro Pro 8mm all new 652.5 miles ago. spark plugs are Champion RC12YC.
Have removed the distributor cap and surprised at the amount of carbon dust in the centre of the rotor arm and the amount of build up on the 8 contact points inside the distributor. I have cleaned the bits off now and wire brushed the contacts inside the cap with the dremmel. and will stick it back together.
Removed the ignition module and that is nicely seated on white grease.
Mechanical advance weights move freely as does the vacuum advance.
I had a similar problem once with a Rover V8 and cheap rotor arms. When compared with a Lucus one the arm was much thinner material and shorter forcing the spark to jump a bigger gap.
I think I will buy a decent cap and rotor arm and keep the current one as a spare. MSD do replacements with higher powered coils unless I decide to go fuel injected in which case it may all get replaced anyway.
Cheers
Craig.
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