[Healeys] pertronix failure

[Alan Seigrist]

John -

You must have had an old unit.  I had the same thing happen to me 10 years
ago and Pertrinix replaced it gratis.  Turns out the old magnet sleeves
were just a bit too big and could delaminate after rubbing on the contact
plate.  They fixed it with the new ones and it's no longer a problem.

Of course, I carried spare points in my car, swapped them out, had my BJ8
running again in 15 minutes.  Gapped it by sight!  Was good enough to to
get home,

Cheers,

Alan

On Tuesday, June 9, 2015, John Vrugtman <javrugtman at htcnet.org> wrote:

> I thought I would share an interesting experience with a pertronix ignitor
> yesterday.  The car, with a BJ8 engine, had been running for years with the
> ignitor with no problems at all, when suddenly on a trip of less than 100
> miles it just quit.  Other than determining it had no spark, we could not
> find anything wrong on the side of the road, even after replacing the coil,
> the ignitor module, rotor, cap and wires and disconnecting all other wires
> from the coil.  Towed it home and resumed checking, but still found
> nothing; then just for grins removed the magnet cap that triggers the
> ignitor and low and behold there at the base of the cam were all six
> magnets.  The holding sleeve had come unglued letting the magnets fall
> out.  One other thing, we replaced them and re glued the sleeve, but the
> car would only run on 3 cylinders.  Found out from Pertronix that the
> magnets have to be aligned by polarity to work properly.  The point learned
> for me is we overlooked the magnet cap because everyone knows magnets don't
> go bad.
>
> John
>
>
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