T16 running problems

[andrew honychurch]

Thank you Dave and Lynn, some great advice and pointers. I shall check out the web forum you mention Dave.

Lynn, thanks for the detailed advice, and I will certainly check out the dwell. I would dearly like to find a jig so that I can set this up myself, last time it cost me £100 and lasted a short while.

Basically, over here in the UK, there is much talk about the divers helmet being fault, and that this was down to a batch of bad rotors or distributor caps that had the incorrect mix in the bakerlite which led to conductivity and tracking . The tracking over works the coil, the rest is history. One chap I know was in the Post War National Service and they went out in 12 T16s on a 20 mile drive. They all broke down and had to be recovered to works. Every T16 bar one I know about in the UK has suffered from this failure when hot. The only one that I doesn't has the crab distributor fitted.

The inside of my Distributor smells of burnt electrodes. I was going to bit the bullet and fit a Mallory Alloy Billet dizzy but they stopped making them, so I am at a loss.

What I had noticed is that the original rotor was very lose on the drive shaft with a great deal of slack on the square drive. Do we think my high power coil could be at fault? Plugs were set as per the book. I will rebuilt it and try again, but i have lost confidence in these dizzies as I have heard so many bad things about them in T16