You do know you can run your points as trigger and with a module on a heat sink pretty much any place away from heat preferably with air flow?
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Did my pertronix fail?
- Thread starter cldonley
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ntsqd
heratic car camper
While I've read of that, and I'm sure that it can be done, my whole interest in electronic ignition is to get away from worn breaker point cams. At this point in life, with the newest points distributors now being 40+ years old it is safe to assume that they're all worn and most are worn out. The very early "Electronic Ignition Conversions" did exactly that, used the points simply to be the reference point for that cylinder's spark event. BT, DT.
Spending time on a distributor machine (remember those?) will show you how a seemingly good breaker point cam with little to no visual wear can have large cylinder to cylinder timing variations. (Mopars were the worst for this.) Without some now rare and fairly sophisticated tooling this isn't fixable by anyone. Just the shape of those cams is highly sophisticated, even if you built a breaker point cam grinding machine you aren't going to regrind one without a LOT of trial and error.
Spending time on a distributor machine (remember those?) will show you how a seemingly good breaker point cam with little to no visual wear can have large cylinder to cylinder timing variations. (Mopars were the worst for this.) Without some now rare and fairly sophisticated tooling this isn't fixable by anyone. Just the shape of those cams is highly sophisticated, even if you built a breaker point cam grinding machine you aren't going to regrind one without a LOT of trial and error.
I don't recall anything being said about the mileage or condition of the currently conversion. Guessing and automatically discounting it might not be appropriate at this time. It may very well be junk. The op has options on how best to proceed for their needs.
The old distributor machines were handy for sure.
The old distributor machines were handy for sure.
ntsqd
heratic car camper
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1814659079168027/
Really want this, but can't justify it.
Really want this, but can't justify it.
OP
OP
I hate that whole justification part. I had an opportunity to buy one for aircraft magnetos, but same issue.
OP
OP
I bought it from another member, lightly used and looking like new. Ran great for 8 miles, then took a dump.
ntsqd
heratic car camper
Just occurred to me, somewhere I may still have an MSD for a 351W. It will have the wrong gear on it. PM if you want to see if it's still around home.
OP
OP
I'd be happy to take it off your hands if you can find it!
ntsqd
heratic car camper
I'll have a look for it. There is no box, is it just the distributor.
OP
OP
Sounds great to me.
