The Lotus Grand Tourers

Did you cure it, just curious.

Bash

I'll report Tuesday. Not going to tempt fait.

No issues in the last 350 miles, so all is looking very positive.
Even didn't throw a wobbler when Mrs Jinxed came with me for a two day trip into the Malverns .
And starting to find a new starting technique. Seems 2 presses of accelerator over richens things. Better to crank from cold for a second or two, then dab the pedal.

Brilliant! That one took some sorting!

Pete

'Bright spark'!!!!!!

Well done, you can stop throwing the spanners around now.

Bash

Well Tony, looks like my SA is going the same way as yours, and thanks to this thread I’ve been able to work it out quite quickly.

Last 4 or 5 times I’ve used the SA it has just cut out after about 3 minutes of running.

Initially starts first time, then if just left to idle will cut. This always happens at the time when the cold vacuum advance switches off, so a sudden large movement of the distributor internals.
It then just will not start - no spark.
A fiddle with the wire going into the distributor and away she goes again instantly and then hasn’t given any trouble while driving.