These Days i took my first run after 6 Years of Restoration. Did the Electric new, with new wires and much more Fuses than original, for better Health. Everything was fine after a first electric test. Then i brought the car to the upholstery, that was half a year ago.Last month was the first engine start, runs fine, but when tested the wires by hand, noticed that the armored cable from the ignition coil to the ignition lock got very hot.
In panic cut off the battery and thought about what is different to half a year before?? To make it short, it was
this Condenser. The upholsterer must have touched it during his work, so that it made contact with a screw from the dashboard - ground contact. After removing the condenser, there was no more wire heating and I could start for the first ride. But after one mile, the engine gets out of run and i hade a little smoke under the dash
. Yo know - Panic, Battery, Troubleshooting
The only thing i found, was a metal antenna connection socket hanging down, which was still left over from the old wiring and carried electricity?! Here again ground contact with a chassis part.I then fixed the part securely for testing and the car started up again and nothing smoked, so I guess I found the problem.
Now its time to come to the real problem.
Here i wrote about my first ride with the car. The last days i made some adjustments to improve engine running. Valve adjustment, Carburator, Ignition Timing and so on. But somehow the engine ran pretty rough and the car shook a lot at higher rpm. Then, after idling for quite a while, it suddenly just went off. New Start was not possible and than the battery was down. So this saturday, after Valve Adjustment - which was absolutly necassery - tried again with the charged battery. Cranking was ok, but no engine run.
Troubleshooting shows that there was no ignition spark from the ignition coil. I have now learned with the forum search that this is the so-called Electrolock ignition and a troubleshooting is rather difficult here, because you can not get to the cables. So I can not properly check whether the cable in the armor shell was damaged during the short circuit and now no longer supplies power to the ignition coil.
Now how do I get to the connections, or how do I properly connect a newer ignition coil with two connections on top? Especially how do I get that to the ignition switch? Found
this Post but unfortunately the pictures doesn´t work. I am rather the visual typ ;-)
