Hi
I have been having problems with my, usually very reliable, 1300..
The car just stopped one day and the fault was down to a broken coil, which we later found out was due to irregular voltages due to a badly fitted radio... A regulator was fitted to solve that problem.
Up to this point is that feasible that this was the problem...
A couple of days after it was "Fixed" I washed the car, the engine did get very wet...
When I went to drive the next day she stuttered very badly and when I looked at the distibuter cap I could see smoke, coming out...
I took off the cap and it was very wet and dirty (it had not been on tightly by the way) I dried it as best I could but still got smoke when starting car, which was really struggling...
The story ends with a mechanic spraying Ether onto the point and the cap which then exploded once we started the car... :-(
I am waiting for a new cap, any ideas what the smoke is??? Has anyone seen this before??? Is this a symptom of a damp dissy cap??
I don't think it was steam by the way, but I could be wrong..
Any help or advice would be great
I have been having problems with my, usually very reliable, 1300..
The car just stopped one day and the fault was down to a broken coil, which we later found out was due to irregular voltages due to a badly fitted radio... A regulator was fitted to solve that problem.
Up to this point is that feasible that this was the problem...
A couple of days after it was "Fixed" I washed the car, the engine did get very wet...
When I went to drive the next day she stuttered very badly and when I looked at the distibuter cap I could see smoke, coming out...
I took off the cap and it was very wet and dirty (it had not been on tightly by the way) I dried it as best I could but still got smoke when starting car, which was really struggling...
The story ends with a mechanic spraying Ether onto the point and the cap which then exploded once we started the car... :-(
I am waiting for a new cap, any ideas what the smoke is??? Has anyone seen this before??? Is this a symptom of a damp dissy cap??
I don't think it was steam by the way, but I could be wrong..
Any help or advice would be great