Just getting my TR3 back on the road....What a BLAST!
I got it going yesterday and drove it in short spurts all afternoon. I have discovered an ignition issue as well as some suspension things going on, front and rear.
Ignition symptoms are a random missing at low RPM (idle) and also at higher RPM(4000). It accelerates fine but then it starts missing intermitantly when I hold the constant RPM. Constant RPM in the mid range runs smooth with infrequent missing.
I have looked at the plugs and the originals had #2 cyl oil fouled and the other 3 cyl's were normal. I did a compression check with a warm engine @ 120psi per cyl. I guess thats normal. I replaced the plugs and drove it a while to see if the oil fouling would continue. When I checked the plug condition, all 4 were normal. I then cleaned the Dist. cap and checked the wire connections and cleaned them all. The points look OK but are not new. It dosen't look like the points are burned. I also cleaned the coil connection.
I'm thinking coil, I have a white ceramic rectange, I think resistor, hooked up on the front of the coil.
Could either one of these be bad? Whats the function of the "resistor"???
I got it going yesterday and drove it in short spurts all afternoon. I have discovered an ignition issue as well as some suspension things going on, front and rear.
Ignition symptoms are a random missing at low RPM (idle) and also at higher RPM(4000). It accelerates fine but then it starts missing intermitantly when I hold the constant RPM. Constant RPM in the mid range runs smooth with infrequent missing.
I have looked at the plugs and the originals had #2 cyl oil fouled and the other 3 cyl's were normal. I did a compression check with a warm engine @ 120psi per cyl. I guess thats normal. I replaced the plugs and drove it a while to see if the oil fouling would continue. When I checked the plug condition, all 4 were normal. I then cleaned the Dist. cap and checked the wire connections and cleaned them all. The points look OK but are not new. It dosen't look like the points are burned. I also cleaned the coil connection.
I'm thinking coil, I have a white ceramic rectange, I think resistor, hooked up on the front of the coil.
Could either one of these be bad? Whats the function of the "resistor"???