[Healeys] pertronix failure

[Bob Spidell]

Thanks for posting this; one more thing to add to the fault-finding 
database.

Bob

On 6/9/2015 6:34 AM, John Vrugtman 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.
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> John
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