The yellow spark could be a faulty condenser,but it could also be shitty points,wrong gap!
judging the yellow/blue to diagnose a duff condenser,you have to be pretty close to it-ie get your head over the dissy!
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- 28th February 2009 - 9:17am
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 27th February 2009 - 10:54pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
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Depends what colour the spark was!-blue is good,yellow not so good Set the timing with a test bulb-turn engine to no1 firing point,turn ign on,put a test lamp between the little black wire inside the dissy & earth-turn dissy til bulb just lights up-you have to fine tune repeatedly to get the precise...
- 27th February 2009 - 4:16pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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Check that the carbon brush inside the dissy cap is intact. Turn engine over by hand til the rotor arm lines up with the mark on the rim of the dissy-that'll show you where the no 1 lead should be firing order is 1432,rotor turns clockwise be prepared for the fact that its gonna be bloody loud with ...
- 27th February 2009 - 4:04pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 27th February 2009 - 2:44pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 27th February 2009 - 2:17pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 27th February 2009 - 12:20pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 26th February 2009 - 9:51pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 24th February 2009 - 4:46pm
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: Cancelling ring
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- 24th February 2009 - 1:25pm
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: Cancelling ring
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This is what greets you when you take the wheel off http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd21/purplepete13/P2230031.jpg If you undo the 4 screws,& the wiggly spring youll have access to whats underneath This is what happens when you indicate http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd21/purplepete13/P223003...
- 24th February 2009 - 10:44am
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: Torque setting for rear drum on 68 squareback please
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- 24th February 2009 - 10:00am
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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I've emailed the scans directly to you,so hopefully youll be able to read them a bit better!
Photos of the reversing light connection here viewtopic.php?t=2456
Photos of the reversing light connection here viewtopic.php?t=2456
- 23rd February 2009 - 10:53pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 23rd February 2009 - 10:49pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 23rd February 2009 - 10:47pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 23rd February 2009 - 10:41pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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- 23rd February 2009 - 10:32pm
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: Cancelling ring
- Replies: 8
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- 23rd February 2009 - 10:47am
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: 1971 Fastback - Front Wheel Bearings
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- 22nd February 2009 - 6:04pm
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: my square won at dubfreeze
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- 21st February 2009 - 7:27pm
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: body removal
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- 20th February 2009 - 9:54am
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: Brake fluid on brake shoes. Clean or replace?
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- 20th February 2009 - 9:34am
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: Brake fluid on brake shoes. Clean or replace?
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- 19th February 2009 - 8:02pm
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: slow wipers
- Replies: 3
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- 18th February 2009 - 1:55am
- Forum: Members' Cars and Project News
- Topic: '73 Fastback Project
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Ht leads can be obtained from Mike Dempster(miketyp3 on here),or buy 2 sets of beetle leads & bastardise them..but i believe theres an issue with needing rightangled connections at the dissy end on FI engines-so much easier to go to mike. Rotor arm/dissy cap etc you should be able to get from gsf et...
- 18th February 2009 - 1:02am
- Forum: Virtual Clubhouse
- Topic: Parts Availability
- Replies: 24
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