This happened to me too, fortunately only a couple
blocks from my house on a sunny day.
The rotor caught the slack in the Petronix wires, but
fortunately the rotor gave way first. I chalk it up to
stupidity on my part -- after that I put a small
plastic tie around the wires to hold them to the plate
(while still giving enough slack to rotate). The
Petrnoix kit comes with a small plastic tie, but
doesn't reference it in the installation instructions.
Interestingly, last year Moss Motors had a piece in
their magazine on installing a Petronix in a TR6 and
they didn't tie down the wires inside the dist. I sent
them an email explaining the error of their ways but
never heard back.
FWIW, I initially had a 3000 rpm miss with the
Petronix and the points too. After I rebuilt the
distributor the miss went away entirely. I also read
somewhere that a couple years ago Pertronix changed
the way the collar is maufactured to eliminate
slippage of the magnets.
William
'74 TR6
--- BigOldWumper@aol.com wrote:
> "Since the ignition will likely fail in the middle
> of a dark road, possibly
> in the rain"
>
> This is EXACTLY what happened to me. The Pertronix
> was one of the first
> "upgrades" I put on my car when I first got it.
> After installing the Ignitor and my
> brand new carpeting and interior set, I set out for
> a drive on a nice, sunny
> day, but not before removing the hard top to take in
> some rays. Well, to make
> a long story short, the car sputtered out and died
> on the side of the road
> about 2 miles from my house on the way back from my
> little trip. I'd be out for a
> couple hours, and hadn't had any problems up to that
> point, but my first
> inclination was to check the Pertronix. I remove the
> distributor cap, and guess
> what? The rotor had eaten up the wires! It had
> completely spun the wires from
> the Ignitor around itself and snapped the wires out
> from the module.
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