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Jedi Hopeful
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Wondering if anyone out there can help me? Yesterday, while driving my 1973 TR6 on a beautiful warm day-the car just died in mid-cruise. The car cranks. Has plenty of gas. Just keeps cranking, without firing. Car has an electronic ignition, starter good, battery good, oil pressure good, not flooded.
Any suggestions?
 
Check for spark and work your way from their. I'd say a bad coil maybe? Or maybe your electronic ignition has given up the ghost?
 
Sounds like an electrical issue. Check each plug wire to see if they are firing while a helper cranks the engine. Start with the one from the coil to the distributor to see if the coil went bad. Then check the ones to the plugs to see if the distributor has an issue. Double check the wires to the electronic ignition to make sure they are not loose and check the wires on the low voltage side of the coil.
 
If you do have an El. Ig. remove and put back the points. If it starts the EI was bad.
don
 
Yup.....Sounds Elec-Trikle.

Like maybe yer battery fell out. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I claim no real knowledge of TR6s but when I first got my 69 back in January the same happened and the problem was that mushroom looking thing with hoses that connects the valve cover to the air cleaners. That funny looking gizz-bob would pop out of it's hole (in the manifold?) and the car would stop dead in the road. It would crank but not start. As soon as I put the gizz-bob back in it's hole, the car started.

So maybe you have a similar gizz-bob in your TR? If so, see if it is tight in it's hole.

Tinster in PR
 
Have you had your ignition key in the full-on position without the engine running for any kind of work on the car in the last few days? Like for more than 2-3 minutes maybe? If so, your fried you electronic ignition. Go back to points and condensor.


Bill
 
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