Well, with regard to an electronic ignition leaving you broken down on the
side of the road, a bad condenser will do that too. And some of them are bad
out of the box. They are a lot cheaper than a Pertronics, but Pertronix has a
very liberal return policy.
Bill Lawrence
> From: austin.healey at gmail.com
> To: bspidell at comcast.net
> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:31:13 +1000
> CC: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Do Moss ign points suck or what?
>
> Ha!
> Good try Bob!!!
> The matchbook is added to enable you to set the busted electronic
> ignition on fire!!
> (your car is stranded by the side of the road - no spark....) "you
> won't ignite - you brand new electronic igition - I'll show you
> igntion you SOB!!!!!!" )
> Whether or not you have points, you still have spark plugs. And they
> still need adjusting.
> So if you'd use the feeler guage already in your toolbox!!!
> Therefore. The only requirement for matches can be to ignite your crap
> ignitor!!!
> I'll defer to the concours guys on this one, but aren't feeler guagues
> standard issue on Healeys?
> ;-)
> Sincerely.
> Chris
> PS you can use them on your fuel pump, and on your voltage regulator,
> and on ..... No, not the matches, the standard issue feeler guage/
> points file.
> Chris
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 08/04/2011, at 2:46 PM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > re: "(anybody know what the match book is for?)"
> >
> > Matchbook covers are approx. 0.015" inch thick--close enough to set
> > your points to get you home.
> >
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On 4/7/2011 8:31 PM, Richard Ewald wrote:
> >>
> >> .......If you are that worried about the electronics buy one good
> >> set of points and
> >> throw them into the trunk with a screwdriver and a match book
> >> (anybody know
> >> what the match book is for?)
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