Guest grunt0311 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 I was driving down the road maybe a few small zips of speed nothing to serious I hit 6500 maybe a little more and all of a sudden I start to lose power, turn off lights, radio helps a little then nothing. The car is a 71 240 with su's and electronic ignition. I pull over and look at the engine. The center of the rotor cap has been burned, I mean the top half of the tit where the coil wire goes to is powder and half the coil wire boot is burned off. Needless to say I didn't get it running again. I just bought this thing a couple of weeks ago, it ran ok when warmed up but backfired while cold. I also recently put the internals from a 280 tach into my 240 tach and replaced. Any ideas what my problem is? Any help would be appreciated, thanks, grunt 0311 71 240 76 never got it running Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Shasteen Posted February 26, 2003 Share Posted February 26, 2003 It is hard to say because you are not using the factory ignition. I would start w/talkig to the previous owner on who installed the aftermarket electronic ignition...then go from there. It is hard to know what changes were made when that electronic ign. was installed: did the installer know what they were doing are did they simply mess things up(?), hard to say over the net. sorry I couldnt be more help. Kevin, (Yea,Still an Inliner) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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