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Healey BJ7 Stumbling Engine

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I have ordered a new coil anAkd hope this solves my problem with the stumbling. But now after seeing the rotor and cap I see I have another problem, it appears that there is too much pressure from the cap to the rotor and it wears both pieces down?
Any suggestions.

Brian
 
Is there something keeping the rotor from properly seating down on the distributor shaft? I noticed the apparent "machining" of a spot on top of the rotor, like it is up too high in the cap. I would expect some wear, but that does look a bit extreme. If the apparent extreme wear produced a lot of metal shavings inside of the cap, that could also cause shorting -sorry I didn't notice that earlier.

Also, double check that they're the correct parts. Just because they're sold as such, doesn't make it so (ask me how I know, and how often!). GL, Jim
 
I went for a good drive the other day and when I got home the battery was dead! I don't know if this has anything to do with what's going on, but I took the regulator off and cleaned the contacts (looks like the orginal one) and one set of contacts were misaligned and this I straightened and cleaned all the wire contacts on the regulator. Everything was rusty, Checked with a meter and the car was now charging at 14.25 volts at 1400 rpm with the headlights on. Drove again today and so far so good.

Thanks to all and I hope this is the end of my problem.

Brian
 
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