Hi, I've had my lovely 110 for a couple of weeks now. All was going swimmingly till Tuesday morning on the way to work. She had started on the button as she had every day, I was most of the way to work when all the electrical power just went off; radio, fan, engine all just stopped as if someone had flicked a big red kill switch. Managed to coast round a corner to a safe place, called for recovery and waited. After about 10 mins I thought I would have a go at starting, and the electrics had all sprung back into life with no intervention from me. However, while she turned over well there was and still is no sign of ignition.
I've checked that there is fuel going to the carburettor and that's fine, the issue is there is no spark, tested on cyliners 1 and 2 HT leads and nothing. The 12v side is there up to the distributor, the capacitor was tested and seems OK, the points are opening an closing when it's turining over. It's not the coil as I've replaced that with a new one to no effect. I have a new rotor arm, capacitor and points on order, all reasonable price so no harm in trying all the easy things ... but while I wait for them to arrive I thought I'd ask here if anyone had any thoughts. Even if I get the ignition working again that doesn't explain the inital loss of electicity so I'd like to fathom that out so as to prevent reoccurrence.
'The joys of motoring' as my dear old dad would have said, and I knew this day would come at some point with a 60+ year old car .. still smiling but eager for some help.
Thanks
Thanks
I've checked that there is fuel going to the carburettor and that's fine, the issue is there is no spark, tested on cyliners 1 and 2 HT leads and nothing. The 12v side is there up to the distributor, the capacitor was tested and seems OK, the points are opening an closing when it's turining over. It's not the coil as I've replaced that with a new one to no effect. I have a new rotor arm, capacitor and points on order, all reasonable price so no harm in trying all the easy things ... but while I wait for them to arrive I thought I'd ask here if anyone had any thoughts. Even if I get the ignition working again that doesn't explain the inital loss of electicity so I'd like to fathom that out so as to prevent reoccurrence.
'The joys of motoring' as my dear old dad would have said, and I knew this day would come at some point with a 60+ year old car .. still smiling but eager for some help.
Thanks
Thanks