Hi All,
Can anyone advise a new novice member as to a problem with the herald 1360 Ive just aquired, All was going well with a couple of local drives to get used to driving an old car again when out of the blue it wouldnt start in the garage one morning. On an initial inspection I found petrol was getting to the carb so a quick look over the ignition system showed up a mouse nibbled! coil lead and a weak spark to the distributor cap so i replaced the lead with a new one and tried to start the engine. It ran to a fashion but very lumpy with every touch of the accelerator causing a stall. I noticed that while running lumpy the coil was getting very hot, could this be the problem, a faulty coil perhaps or should i be looking somewhere else, as you can probably tell i am a novice to all this so any help would be really great,
Cheers,