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This post is to recount the last two months in the life of my Triumph TR6, which recently became known as Sybil; because of her multiple personalities. It usually doesn't take me over a year of ownership to name my cars, but for some reason it did with this one, however now that I have I feel good about it. But I digress...
Roughly two months ago, I took a nice 4 hour trip in the TR, it performed very well I thought, that is until I got close to home. It started developing a bad vibration in the rear. When I got home I discovered that a rear hub was failing on me... I had well over an inch of play when I moved the wheel up and down. Since the hubs where recently rebuilt, I took it off and called the supplier, which replaced it without question... However it did take a while because the bearing kit was on back order. All-in-all, it was about a month before the car was reassembled.
The night that I finished reassembling the hub, I took Sybil for a ride.. a very short one. Over a period of 15 minutes, the car decided it wouldn't run below 2000rpm. Above 2000 it ran great... until it hit 4500rpm then it started missing. It was everything I could do get it home.
At home I pulled the plugs, checked the dizzy and found a good bit of play in it...enough that I found very fine metal shavings in the dizzy. It looked as if the rotor was hitting the contacts and shorting out. Now I have a total of 800 miles on this "rebuilt" distributor, so I was pretty erked to say the least. This was the second dizzy I've gone through and I'd had enough of the bad rotors and cheap caps.
So I bought a Mallory Unilite distributor and coil. I found this place out of Nevada that sold it for nearly $300 less than Moss. When I received it, I paid a machine shop $40 to take the drive dog off the old yucky Lucas distributor and install it on the new Mallory. Total install time, including cutting new spark plug wires; 3 hours.
Conclusion: Un-freakin-believable. This is a new car; it finally idles without missing, it pulls harder than it ever has and it doesn't miss over 4500rpm anymore. The only gotcha, and it's a small gotcha, is that I had to send my tach off to APT Instruments to get converted to electronic. But at least I won't have to bother with the tach bouncing all over creation when I shift hard. I'm still waiting on the tach, but the setup is more-or-less done save for that.
If any of you guys are contemplating this mod I highly recommend it. I still have one complete dizzy, my original tach and coil, so I could have this change backed out in less than a day if I want it back stock. But in the mean time, it runs GREAT!!
Roughly two months ago, I took a nice 4 hour trip in the TR, it performed very well I thought, that is until I got close to home. It started developing a bad vibration in the rear. When I got home I discovered that a rear hub was failing on me... I had well over an inch of play when I moved the wheel up and down. Since the hubs where recently rebuilt, I took it off and called the supplier, which replaced it without question... However it did take a while because the bearing kit was on back order. All-in-all, it was about a month before the car was reassembled.
The night that I finished reassembling the hub, I took Sybil for a ride.. a very short one. Over a period of 15 minutes, the car decided it wouldn't run below 2000rpm. Above 2000 it ran great... until it hit 4500rpm then it started missing. It was everything I could do get it home.
At home I pulled the plugs, checked the dizzy and found a good bit of play in it...enough that I found very fine metal shavings in the dizzy. It looked as if the rotor was hitting the contacts and shorting out. Now I have a total of 800 miles on this "rebuilt" distributor, so I was pretty erked to say the least. This was the second dizzy I've gone through and I'd had enough of the bad rotors and cheap caps.
So I bought a Mallory Unilite distributor and coil. I found this place out of Nevada that sold it for nearly $300 less than Moss. When I received it, I paid a machine shop $40 to take the drive dog off the old yucky Lucas distributor and install it on the new Mallory. Total install time, including cutting new spark plug wires; 3 hours.
Conclusion: Un-freakin-believable. This is a new car; it finally idles without missing, it pulls harder than it ever has and it doesn't miss over 4500rpm anymore. The only gotcha, and it's a small gotcha, is that I had to send my tach off to APT Instruments to get converted to electronic. But at least I won't have to bother with the tach bouncing all over creation when I shift hard. I'm still waiting on the tach, but the setup is more-or-less done save for that.
If any of you guys are contemplating this mod I highly recommend it. I still have one complete dizzy, my original tach and coil, so I could have this change backed out in less than a day if I want it back stock. But in the mean time, it runs GREAT!!
