Right I'm at my wits end with an issue on our SC.

On Saturday Tom

& I replaced the cambelt and the dizzy

(

) seal

(outer O-ring).

As I found a tiny hole in the cambelt and the dizzy was leaking a bit.

Everything went as well as one could expect.

Got it to TDC, replaced cambelt.

Removed dizzy replaced O-ring, refitted making sure it was all aligned etc.

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Before removing the plugs to get it to TDC, I clean out the plug chanel

- it had oil residue from a spill not long ago but a tiney bit of oil got into the holes.

Attempted a blow out by cranking the engine without the plugs

- nothing came out as expected

(it wasn't much at all that went in)

Reassembeled everything.

Car started after a bit of spluttering and set the dizzy to it's previous position as marked up before removing.

Car idled well and seemed to respond well off throttle.

Took it for a test drive to the shops

(pick up much needed beer

).

On the way out there was one tiny stutter

- nothing much.

It felt like the SC belt slipped

(I knew it needed nipping up).

On the way back there were a couple of bigger hesitations/missfires only when pegging the throttle

(WOT).

So took it gently all the way thinking I got the timing out.

Due to time and other commitments, didn't get chance to look at it until yesterday.

As the dizzy had been leaking oil over the altenator and associated connectors/wiring I clean them up thoroughly

(each pin removed from the connectors etc.

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.

).

Double checked everything.

Put it all back together and the same thing.

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Got the timing gun out and found that when timing is bang on any movement of the throttle, the engine just missfires/hesitates/stalls.

The engine wont start when timed either.

It idles fine.

Advance the timing by a bit, the engine starts fine and idles fine and runs OK with gentle increase of throttle, but under WOT the same symptoms occur.

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Tom seams to think it's electrical, possible that the coil pack has gone faulty, but this would be a massive coincidence between cambelt change.

Others on the SC forum reckon it may be the dizzy, but again none of the contacts have been touched.

All vacuum hoses, electrical connectors

(related

& not) etc.

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.

have been checked.

This is really doing my head in.

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I have access to a spare dizzy and coil pack from this evening and will try them.

The car ran perfectly before all this work so we just can't understand what/how/why

Any ideas? Anyone experienced similar before?

This topic is mainly aimed at Mr Woods, Kev

& Kevin-in, but anyone else with actual definitive knowlege, your sugestions would be more than welcome.

JAE beer tokens available

(The car is needed to get us to and around Spa this coming weekend.

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So we are kinda very desperate.

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)

TIA
