Bloody midget!
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Took it out for its first spin this year yesterday, thought i would give it a blast, fill it up, bit of country lane then home and to the pub.

Hmm, well drive faultless to the petrol station, about 6 miles for some fresh optimax.

Started it up after filling it up and immediately thought it didnt sound clean, but it is fairly lumpy at idle.

Drove off and it cut between 3 and 4 cylinders, kept going for maybe 2 miles looping back towards home hoping it would clear until it dropped to 2, then 1 then nothing. dead.

Bonnet off, look round etc and couldnt see anything obvious. So let it cool off, although not that hot, and tried again, ran on 4, then 5 seconds later 3, 2 etc and died. So thought no fuel getting through, whipped it off just before the carb, plenty.

It was knocking on and i had no tools so called the breakdown just so that i would get home reasonable.

He came and looked, we had the float chamber tops off, nice and clean etc. It runs 2 coils so tried the spare (they fitted the spare as its an ex race car - no idea why!) still no difference. Had now gone from running for 10 seconds to not running at all.

we whipped the plugs out, no spark at all!!! bugger. I think its got a pertronix ignitor in it so guessing thats goosed.

Tried it this morning with some new plugs, no spark at all. power to the coil is ok.

All in all a bit of a pisser! fork out about £100 for a new ignitor thing, may as well do rotor, cap and coil and its done with.

Ah well! just seemed a conincidence it did it immediately after filling up with fuel, hence thinking it was fuel, but no spark is no spark!

Can you still buy Optimax?

heat soak into the ignition?

i 've had similar with metty leccy dizzys, in traffic the start arsing about, soon as you get moving the air gets to it and it starts working properly.

V power then! lol! same stuff.

not really sure why it did it then, but there we go. i can only assume its the cause, i wont know till i change it. roll on payday!!

i thought it would clear, but it wouldnt have it at all.

sorry ian, but iv'e no sympathy, lol

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Cheers carl!

yeah jon, its what i've been looking at.

megajolt it!

nah, cant be arsed! ha ha! did think of the k1100 head and then megajolt mind, keep it NA and it wouldnt be a whole lot of work. but it will probably stay as it is, i'm lazy! lol!

Isnt it time you sold this?

JF is right Lumenition is the way to go,if it's still NA.Will sort that lumpy idle too.

'Where does the engine go?'

want it nic?

its an mgoc spec car with 93bhp so the cam makes the idle lumpy, nothing will solve that i dont think.

Might have the engine out to tidy up the engine bay, although remember what a pain it was last time i took one out, maybe not!

Hmm me and Hywel were talking about how much fun one would be

We need some kind of race car

How much?

around 3000-3500 mate. taxed/mot'd till october.

going to order a lumenition for it end of the week and sure that will sort it. its only something simple i'm sure.

I know that's no consultation to you but I took my Midget for a spin a few hours ago had a great time.

I seriously doubt it!