Hello everbody,
As usual things started very innocently: Yesterday I drove my Stag to a friend's garage to check the compression. Remember: as the flat Mk1 pistons are built incombined with Mk2 heads, compression is pretty low (10-11).
When checking the compression and later timing the ignition, we found out that sometimes the engine stopped when you moved the cables from the Lumenition. So this morning (in our country today was a church holiday - i.e. an ideal day for banging around your classic car) I decided to renew the optronic element in the dissy with its cables assuming they were the ones causing the problems.
When I tried to remove the optronic element I broke one "vane" of the Lumention rotor and to make a bad story worse I dropped awasher into the dissy. So out went the whole dissy to be replaced by a refurbished one, which was waiting in the boot anyway.
As I had always wondered why Triumph placed the ignition coil in the presumably hottest place in the engine bay, I decided to relocate the coil to the inside of the rhs wheel arch. Of course this meant to make extensions for all the ignition cables.
This is where I stopped to have a good glass of red wine - or two. Nevertheless I decided to replace the other Lumenition parts tomorrow as well - just formy peace of mind and as I am working at that job anyway.
I willpost photos - hopefully this year still, as the Stag will be hibernating very soon.
Kind regards, Dieter.
As usual things started very innocently: Yesterday I drove my Stag to a friend's garage to check the compression. Remember: as the flat Mk1 pistons are built incombined with Mk2 heads, compression is pretty low (10-11).
When checking the compression and later timing the ignition, we found out that sometimes the engine stopped when you moved the cables from the Lumenition. So this morning (in our country today was a church holiday - i.e. an ideal day for banging around your classic car) I decided to renew the optronic element in the dissy with its cables assuming they were the ones causing the problems.
When I tried to remove the optronic element I broke one "vane" of the Lumention rotor and to make a bad story worse I dropped awasher into the dissy. So out went the whole dissy to be replaced by a refurbished one, which was waiting in the boot anyway.
As I had always wondered why Triumph placed the ignition coil in the presumably hottest place in the engine bay, I decided to relocate the coil to the inside of the rhs wheel arch. Of course this meant to make extensions for all the ignition cables.
This is where I stopped to have a good glass of red wine - or two. Nevertheless I decided to replace the other Lumenition parts tomorrow as well - just formy peace of mind and as I am working at that job anyway.
I willpost photos - hopefully this year still, as the Stag will be hibernating very soon.
Kind regards, Dieter.
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