The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

just fitted the coil tonight and found that the car has dropped from 850 to 600 rpm ,and the coil getas red hot .
is this all normal...
rich

doesn't sound it to me. I changed some a while ago and there was no change....something about red hot seems wrong as well. Didn't leave the ignition on while you fitted it did you - that heats em up

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coil is fooked or have you been playing with the wiring as well?

no ignition was off , hasd the car running for about 10 minutes , its the sports coil that i,ve fitted wilsty running a feed from the fuse box to cut out the ballast resistor.
i,ve got the wire from the fuse board to + and the points wire to the _ and one black and white wire to _ also
does this sound right
rich

Which DLB coil do you have?

When you say you have the Lucas 12v coil is it the DLB 105 or the DLB 110. The DLB 105 is the non ballasted coil whereas the DLB 110 uses the existing ballast resistor. If you wire a new live feed to the DLB 110 it will get hot.

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its the dlb105 mart, so does everything seem right .
or do i remove all other wires from the coil except the live feed to the positive and the wire to the points to the negative.

or do i still need the double wire that origionally went to negative as well

rich

I've edited the post before, confused me self a bit (it was late).

Yes, keep the same leads on the -ve but only the the new live on the +ve.

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Sprintless for the first time in 35+ years. ... Still Sprintless.

Engines, Gearboxes, Overdrives etc. rebuilt. PM me.


1997 TVR Chimaera 450