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After my comments on electronic ignition - I thought I should come clean about one issue I had with the BJ8 last year. The old girl started to misbehave and stutter on acceleration, I checked the basics and all appeared ok, and I put it down to bad fuel as LV fuel is not the greatest. The problem seemed to go away, and in fact when it did appear, I could drive through it if I was gentle with the throttle. I was unable to find the problem before we went on a run with the club. About 800m later the car was getting difficult to drive and unnerving as I was waiting for it to stop all together. After consulting with Jack Daniels one evening, I had a brainstorm and ran out and tore the distributor out of the car. Everything looked ok but I removed the baseplate, initially to check the centrifugal advance. I gave the baseplate a cusory glance and noticed some wear on the slot that guides the moving part. I pullued on the pin that the vacuum advance attatches to and sure enough, as I pulled, the moving part of the baseplate rotated but also pulled upwards. The slot that the pin is guided by, was worn in one place. The effect of this was as soon as the vacuum advance kicked in the points gap would dissapear because of the upwards movement of the baseplate. I made a temporary repair and the car ran like new again. When I got home, I removed the baseplate and dismantled it. A spot of weld on the worn slot, a bit of work with the Dremmell and that part was as good as new. There is a spring that applies pressure to the movable bit which just needed adjusting to apply more pressure and the pin that the vacuum advance attatched to was bent in the direction of pull, so 2 seconds with the needle nosed pliers had that fixed. With it all re-assembled it now works like new and the timing is spot on at all engine speeds.
A friend who has a BJ8 checked his, found the same situation, made the repair and now has fixed his idle problem that has been bugging him for years.
I'm sorry if this is a bit long winded, but its such an easy fix the an elusive issue and spans across all distributor vehicles I thought it may benefit a couple of you.
A friend who has a BJ8 checked his, found the same situation, made the repair and now has fixed his idle problem that has been bugging him for years.
I'm sorry if this is a bit long winded, but its such an easy fix the an elusive issue and spans across all distributor vehicles I thought it may benefit a couple of you.
