My landrover has a serious cough!

[yorker]

Are you getting no spark at the plugs at all? or at the points? The plate moves a little IIRC because of the vacuum and or centrifigal advance.

Check your wiring in the distributer if you removed the points & condensor etc, sometimes people put them together wrong and place a connection on the wrong side of an insulator. It looks ok but you'll get no spark. Which distributer do you have?

[jonnyc]

A Crane electronic ignition is one of the best investments I ever made. If the only savings was time spent playing with points and the dizzy, that would be enough.

[primerib]

I have an early type distributor (dome top). But was not getting any spark at the points. I did not know I needed spark there. The wires are poor but connected correctly. So now she is up and running again. phew! it was a close one. There is street cleaning on tuesday and I would need to move it! Now that it is running that will be much easier. That must have been the reason for the cough as well. So thank you very much. Your advice was very helpful! Today's problem....Solved!

[SafeAirOne]

I have an early type distributor (dome top). But was not getting any spark at the points. I did not know I needed spark there.

Hmm...If the condensor is working properly, I dont think you should be getting a spark at the points. In fact, I believe that's the sole purpose of the condensor--To prevent an arc from jumping the gap when the points open, thereby cleanly disconnecting the electricity flow from the primary side of the coil circuit, causing a tidy collapse of the magnetic field of the primary circuit, triggering LOTS of voltage out the secondary wire from the coil to the center of the distributor cap, blah, blah, blah..

Maybe you said it but I'm just not picking up on it, but what did you do to solve your problem?

[primerib]

ahhh, right I see what your saying about the spark. Well yes it does not spark when turning, but when touching it with a screw driver It does now! I replaced the points and it seems to be going well today, maybe I will make it to the brookline car show this weekend after all!