As some know, I have spent about the last 2 years going over and cleaning up under the hood/bonnet. Well got the XJS started but only for a moment. Sputtered, spit, (maybe even coughed) then died. tried and tried a couple of times more with nothing, cranked fine. Started the task of checking over connections, and such, but could not find anything wrong. So took a few days off from working on it, then went back down my garage and decided to make sure the dizzy was set right, removed the cap and found what you see in the pics, dizzy is ok, but replace a couple of parts that are not.





this was a new part, as I am completely going over things




flash shield got cracked, and a piece broken off




not sure if you can see the piece of the flash shield




piece may show up here

 

Bugga.

Snaps are a tad blurred.

Mine exploded a distributor cap, oops. Cap/rotor/shield. all went west.

I ditched my broken flash shield back then, had no issues at all.

 

So you just left out the shield, just wondering on that because I was thinking of getting a replacement, but the cost of that piece of plastic is ridiculous

 

Yep, lef it on the floor where it landed.

 

 

Is it still there?

 

HAHA, no.

The wife constantly sweeps my shed, lucky me, and rearranges things, not so lucky, but age has mellowed us both, so we let it be.

I dont do anywhere near as much "shed stuff" as I used to. NO V12's at the moment.

 

 

Ugh, some "new' stuff is "junk"!!!


In about 97, I built a "Hot Rod of the forties". Hotted up
circa 46 239 CI flat head V8. They used a "crab like" distributor
mounted off the cam nose. Slick, off set dog drive. It fits in sync or it doesn't fit. No "which" RDC issues.


A business colleague had a side line of building these neat dual point distributors. I found an after market repo cap and rotor.


The cap decent, the rotor far from it...


Time to fire it... As described her ran for an instant, then silence.
Diagnosis, no spark.


Removed the cap. Junk rotor contact bent like a pretzel. It is somewhere in my back forty.. I stepped out the garage door and
with a lot of adrenalin made a mighty toss.


Cleaned up an older rotor. Genuine stuff. My slicked up
V8 on dual carbs fired right up,. Right off the headers, pure
music....


Carl