01-08-2021, 12:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-08-2021, 12:01 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
You pays your money and....so I thought I'd experiment.
1930 Chummuy: snap-in electronic conversion kit. Starts and runs perfectly and is the tickover 50 r.p.m.? It feels like it.
1934 Ruby: electronic distributor. Starts and runs perfectly and is the tickover 50 r.p.m.? It feels like it
1929 Chummy: snap-in electronic conversion kit. Ran for 50 miles then started coughing, backfiring and rough running - though it never stopped. Happily, I discovered the cause - the car hated the fact that this unit was new; it was clearly expecting that any modification would be in line with the previous owner's other ingenious ideas. The conversion should have been made from the remains of a 1920s crystal radio set, carefully aside in 1928, "just in case". Put the points back, one pull on the handle, and off we went.
1930 Chummuy: snap-in electronic conversion kit. Starts and runs perfectly and is the tickover 50 r.p.m.? It feels like it.
1934 Ruby: electronic distributor. Starts and runs perfectly and is the tickover 50 r.p.m.? It feels like it
1929 Chummy: snap-in electronic conversion kit. Ran for 50 miles then started coughing, backfiring and rough running - though it never stopped. Happily, I discovered the cause - the car hated the fact that this unit was new; it was clearly expecting that any modification would be in line with the previous owner's other ingenious ideas. The conversion should have been made from the remains of a 1920s crystal radio set, carefully aside in 1928, "just in case". Put the points back, one pull on the handle, and off we went.