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paulheritage
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Feel a bit stupid

Postby paulheritage » 31 Oct 2011 22:04

My TR7V8 has been out of sorts recently with back-firing and running rough. It seemed like an ignition problem rather than fuel/engine but ordered some parts from various places and replaced the coil, rotor, distributor cap, ignition leads. Fuel filter was leaking to replaced it and also replaced the fuel pipe that was brittle.

I basically run out of time and got my local garage to check as I thought it may have been something more complicated and dropped it off last Thursday. Anyway, the rest of the spare parts arrived Thursday afternoon (plugs) and I got a call on Thursday afternoon to say they fixed the problem by replacing the plugs. If only I'd waited...

Cheers Paul,

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Postby john 215 » 01 Nov 2011 05:55

Hi Paul,

We have all been there, sometimes its the most simple of things!!

Cheers John

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Postby FI Spyder » 01 Nov 2011 13:02

Yup, so easy to panic and assume the worst rather than going from easiest to hardest.



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Postby rgsSpider » 01 Nov 2011 14:55

On the bright side, you're all stocked up for when those bits DO go bad!

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