funny thing happened
funny thing happened
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uglymug

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575 posts

264 months

Tuesday 8th May 2007
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Drove down to Pencoed car show,great. Half way home, suddenly went like a tank. Sounded worse!. Booted it all the way up Nantgarw Hill, went like dream all the way home. Strange........any ideas ?....UG

p.s chatting to a few TVR guys.........we might be having 2 new wedge members. One from Swansea, one from Bristol.

JR

14,332 posts

287 months

Tuesday 8th May 2007
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HT leads?

TVR 3X

1,233 posts

296 months

Tuesday 8th May 2007
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This has happened to me on a few occasions.

Is this a Rover V8 engined car (may be only on flapper injection).

If the car idles roughly then look for the Resistor Pack (about the size of a cigarette packet with about a dozen wires coming out of it (on top of the passenger inner wing on my car).

Wiggle the connector - if the engine picks up and runs well then this is the problem. Take the plug off, clean it and dollop it with vaseline to prevent corrosion.

I know that some of the rover racers who kept injection used to remove the connector and solder all the leads in place.

Russ

TVR 3X

1,233 posts

296 months

Tuesday 8th May 2007
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This has happened to me on a few occasions.

Is this a Rover V8 engined car (may be only on flapper injection).

If the car idles roughly then look for the Resistor Pack (about the size of a cigarette packet with about a dozen wires coming out of it (on top of the passenger inner wing on my car).

Wiggle the connector - if the engine picks up and runs well then this is the problem. Take the plug off, clean it and dollop it with vaseline to prevent corrosion.

I know that some of the rover racers who kept injection used to remove the connector and solder all the leads in place.

Russ