[DeTomaso] Ignition truble

[Jørn C. Olsen]

Hi!
Pulled the distributor today and my problem was the same as yours Mike!
The distributor gear was totaly worn down!

J.C. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Vallee 
  To: Jørn C. Olsen 
  Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ignition truble


  I am curious. Please let me know what you find.

  Cheers,

  --mike v


  ----- Original Message ----
  From: Jørn C. Olsen <joernco at online.no>
  To: Mike Vallee <mike.vallee at yahoo.com>
  Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
  Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:42:38 AM
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ignition truble

  This makes sence to me!
  I changes the camshaft at the same time I installed the new distributor.  I 
  will take out the distributor and check!

  Thanks!

  J.C
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Mike Vallee" <mike.vallee at yahoo.com>
  To: <detomaso at realbig.com>; <joernco at online.no>
  Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:31 AM
  Subject: [DeTomaso] Ignition truble


  > Hi,
  >
  > I had the exact same symptoms while diving to Las Vegas for this year's 
  > Fun Rally. I also have an MSD billet
  > distributor and 6AL box for the ignition. Four hundred miles into my trip 
  > it started running very poorly and
  > backfiring like crazy. This left me stranded at the side of the road in a 
  > small town where I knew no one.
  >
  > A bunch of the NorCal Pantera Club (PCNC) guys came to my aid and spent 
  > the day troubleshooting my car.
  > They found a number of things that looked like they could have caused the 
  > problem, but none of them fixed
  > the backfiring and poor running. This very knowledgeable group included 
  > Mike Drew, Larry Finch  and  Marcus
  > Smith among others. After spending *all day* and half the evening working 
  > on my car (incredibly good folks) it
  > was clear that it was not going to Vegas that day. I pretty much had to 
  > force them to go on without me as it went
  > against the "Leave no man behind" credo of PCNC, POCA and it seems, 
  > Pantera owners everywhere.
  >
  > Even after dropping me back at the local hotel Marcus kept working on my 
  > car, stranded now in his garage. It was
  > after midnight when he called me up and said "I found the problem". It 
  > turned out to be a *very* badly worn
  > distributor gear. The MSD billet distributor comes with a bronze gear that 
  > can wear down very quickly when mating
  > up with a new cam gear. According to MSD (and other sources), the first 
  > such bronze gear can wear out in the first
  > 1000-2000 miles. The second one will last nearly forever (their words, not 
  > mine). Check yours out. The gear teeth
  > are normally about 3mm wide. Mine had worn down to knife edges.
  >
  > Anyway, the following morning Marcus drove me the 60 miles back in to 
  > Sacramento to get a new gear and spent
  > the rest of the day installing it, timing the car etc. With the gear 
  > replaced the car ran perfectly once more. After all
  > the time spent by others to get me there I couldn't not continue on to Las 
  > Vegas and so set out the following morning
  > and made it down only a day late.
  >
  > I can't thank the PCNC folks enough for getting me past my Ignition 
  > Trouble, and down to Vegas.
  >
  > Cheers,
  >
  > --mike v        #5473
  >
  > ----
  >
  > Hi!
  > On my first drive this summer with my Pantera it started to misfire and 
  > lost power.
  > Tried to change the spark plugs and the cables but same result.  On friday 
  > we checked
  > the ignition timing and it showed 0 degrees.  I don`t understand that 
  > because the
  > distributor was not loose and we timed it to 30 degrees when we had it in 
  > the dyno last year.
  > We timed it back to 30 degrees and it became better but I can feel it is 
  > something wrong
  > when I drive it.  It has not full power and has a small klicking sound in 
  > the left exhaust.
  > I run it with an MSD Billett distributor and a MSD 6AL
  > ignition box.
  > Can it be the distributor pin who is giving up slowly?
  > Anybody??
  >
  > J.C
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