<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>Re: 73 T-3 engine, FI, Standard...</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> Car started lurching badly, and needed big rev to goose it into driving ahead,and one backfire. Then both red lights on...car stopped.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> Lucky, just a look into distributor found that the little cup tab that holds the little ball against the plate was gone, as was the little ball. The tab was broken...and it and the ball were inside the distributor....and previously bouncing around doing who knows wyat
electrical mis-connections.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> Lucky....had a spare points plate assembly in the trunk, and all is well...sort of.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> BUT after replacing that ball and its holder...and "solving" the problem with forgetting to tighten down the timing set nut....it still ran kinda rough.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> On a whim, I changed to different rotor and points...and now it seems fine...pending serious road test tomorrow.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times
new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Question is: Could points and Rotor have been somehow electrically compromised by that broken tab part, and the little ball, bouncing around in the distributor for a mile or so? Maybe trigger contacts too? <br></div></div></body></html>