Servicing
Program
september 14, 2008
A complete
tune-up and an intervention on brakes have been done recently, do I
have almost nothing to do. Everything works well. However, I'll have
to purge brakes because the brake pedals feels weird. I also plan to
replace oils (engine, transmission and rear differential) and grease
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Installation
of a "123Ignition" electronic ignition system
december 31, 2009
Starting
this car has always been quite tricky. Since I use it on a more regular
basis, I'm more successful, but I noticed a few times that the starter
motor used so much current that the ignition was poor and some times
the engine seems to fire correctly only when I stop using the starter.
So, hoping to get better starts and to improve reliability, I install
an electronic ignition system from 123Ignition, which is a complete
distributor, without any external circuit, so efficient but discreet.
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I
start by searching for the timing scale under the car
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I
turn the main pulley to reach the initial timing point the best
I can (this is 8 degrees before TDC)
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Then
installing the distributor is very easy and setting it to the
right point is also easy, using the integrated LED indicator
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Wiring
is a little bit more complicated because taking the power from
the coil causes problems on the rev counter (it goes at its
maximum when switching on the ignition)
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So
I searched another power source, on a rely controlling the cooling
fans
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And
this way everything works, including the rev counter
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The distributor
allows choosing between several advance curves, but the installation
manual doesn't say which curve goes with which car type. So I searched
on the Internet and I found some helpful forum posts with which I made
my choice. The problem is that I completely forgot which curve I choused
;-) To check for the selected curve, the distributor has to be removed,
so I'll go and see only if this selection has to be changed.
I drove
the car only a few kilometers since this installation but starting the
car seems easier now. Once started, the engine worked already very well
so I perhaps won't see so much improvements, but if I have better starts,
that's already a lot. I'll have to confirm these first impressions after
a few hundreds kilometers.
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