[Healeys] Points vs electronic ignition

[Quentin Schweninger]

Hello Bob.
You mentioned below that there were sometimes problems with cap/rotor
combinations with the pertronix ignition. Apparently thats what I have.
The cap center contact hits the rotor, about .050 before it seats on the
distributor body.
This is a new cap, (Moss 874-060) on a 25D6.
 I called Pertronix and the first technician was curious and asked me to make
sure the Collar was down all the way,
and asked me to measure what was interfering and how much.
When I called back I got another Tech. who insisted that I didn't have the
collar pushed down far enough.
The collar is located vertically on the distributer shaft by resting on the
distributor cam.
This tech told me, "we have made thousands of these and never had a problem".
Is this similar to the problems you are referring to?

Dave
BN7 II Daisy


On Dec 13, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Bob Spidell wrote:

Pertronix makes modules for both. The 6-cyl module requires a 'collar' with
magnets that sits under the rotor (sometimes causing problems with some
rotor/cap combinations). The 4-cyl module does not require the collar;
apparently, it senses the movement of the cam lobes (the 4-cyl distributor is
smaller than the 6-cyl and I don't think there's room for the collar anyway).

Bob

----- Original Message -----

From: "Reinhart Rosner" <reinhart.rosner at aon.at>
To: "Tom Felts" <tomfelts at windstream.net>, healeys at autox.team.net, "Mitch"
<dayton21 at comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 5:58:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Points vs electronic ignition

Interesting question. In my 100 I still have points and have learnt how to
set the ignition - it's not too hard.

With the electronic ignition: Is there a difference if you have a 4- or a
6-cylinder car?

Reinhart


Reinhart Rosner
55 100 BN 1
Vienna - Austria
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