Recent content by Dave7

Gave in and took it to mechanic. He couldn't get much further but figures it is the ignitor but possibly the distributor.

Thanks, Spark plug gap is ok. I don't seem to have a condenser at all. I believe the resistor is that box next to the coil. I wish I had the old style two cap coil not the electronic one. I've tried three coils now. The old one, brand new one and a junkyard one. I'd be surprised if they were...

This is driving me crazy - I can't get my spark plugs to fire on my '89 Micra. Here is the story - can skip this if you want - car drove great for almost two months when my insurance company insisted on a safety inspection. I don't know a good mechanic so I just took it somewhere. They BS'd me...

It is definitely the blue wire. Never got to it yet as sadly the garage doing my mandatory safety inspection has buggered up my Micra. Spark plug will not fire. Slowly replacing the whole ignition system. :(

That would be great RTLkyuubi. If not I'll give the blue one a try once it warms up (-30C here - ugh).

Odd that my wiring is different than the German or UK ones.

Ok, I've searched and searched but my coil set up seems different. It is an odd electronic thing. The wires seem to different colours than the UK 1.2L set up as well. Mine is a Canadian spec car. So I want to take into the neg coil but which wire. Black seems safe but all I have is Black/White...

13" Civic rims on the front and 12" Micra rims on the rear. Quite the size difference. I've since got the matching 13" rims on the rear.

I put 13" Honda Civic rims on mine. The Honda centre bore is smaller so I used 8mm spacers. Worked great on the front but required a little grinding on the rear (I did mine on the hub bore on the drum). Also makes the rims lug centric instead of hub centric so you need to be a bit more careful...

Any trick to removing the rear brake drum? I have parking brake off and a wheel spins freely. Wheel off and drum should just come off right? Wacked with a hammer all over many times. Tried prying against the backing plate but it just bends. What am I doing wrong here. The manual on the useful...

Thanks - the tires are crappy but will be fun in the snow once I get the winters on. This is my other car.

A couple photos of the Micra. 1.2L / 5spd. I love this car! Lots of fun to drive. Rather like a 2/3 scale VW Golf. I had to put the stupid 12" wheels back on for a short time. The previous owner nicknamed it "The Dragon" after this and another decal (spells out Dragon on the rear window). A...

You can find them dirt cheap on eBay. Check out the of the US eBay (not sure why as they never had the Micra) - they have them really cheap.

Looks to be in fantastic shape. Nice buy.

here are the headlight shots.