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Over the weekend, I started my newly rebuilt engine for the first time. I couldn't get it to fire with the Pertronix and reverted back to the points before I screwed up my cam. After getting the car running, I put the Pertronix back in, but still no dice.
I posted a plea for help that Midlife responded to. I tried his suggestions, but still couldn't get it to work.
I spoke with the a Tech at Pertronix Monday and yesterday I tried what he suggested. It worked and I just wanted to put this out there since I've never read this dicussed before.
The magnetic exciter ring was sitting too low on the distributor shaft relative to the heigth of the ignitor module. I used a rubber garden hose washer to raise the magnet ring up about 0.125" and now it sits flush with the top of the ignitor. The rotor still bottoms out without contacting the magnetic ring.
I put it all back together and tested it. I HAVE MAJOR BLUE LIGHTNING SHOOTING OUT OF THE COIL!!!
The engine now fires right up with almost no cranking.
Go figure.
Hopefully someone else can use this tip.
I posted a plea for help that Midlife responded to. I tried his suggestions, but still couldn't get it to work.
I spoke with the a Tech at Pertronix Monday and yesterday I tried what he suggested. It worked and I just wanted to put this out there since I've never read this dicussed before.
The magnetic exciter ring was sitting too low on the distributor shaft relative to the heigth of the ignitor module. I used a rubber garden hose washer to raise the magnet ring up about 0.125" and now it sits flush with the top of the ignitor. The rotor still bottoms out without contacting the magnetic ring.
I put it all back together and tested it. I HAVE MAJOR BLUE LIGHTNING SHOOTING OUT OF THE COIL!!!
The engine now fires right up with almost no cranking.
Go figure.
Hopefully someone else can use this tip.