[Spridgets] Progress on getting the Midget on the road...

Jim Johnson bmwwxman at gmail.com
Tue May 27 19:44:12 MDT 2008


Thanks, Glen.  I'll have to check to see of the Pertronix sensor is
adjustable...  It runs pretty sweet now... better than it ever did, but I've
also turned the dizzy as far clockwise as I can...

Cheers!!
Jim

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Glen Byrns <grbyrns at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> Even if the dizzy drive gear is dead on, if the trigger point of the
> petronix sensor isn't exactly where the original points trigger position
> was, the difference shows up with a timing light.  Considering the desired
> relationship of the rotor and the plugwire post across the range of desred
> timing, you might want to shift the plate mounted sensor for the petronix
> to ensure triggering at the correct point in the rotor/post relationship.
>
> Glen
>
> > When I had the engine down over the winter, I installed a Pertronics
> > Ignitor
> > and one of Jeff Schlemmer's timing mark relocation kits on it. When I
> > started it, it was hunting so I disconnected the vacuum line to the dizzy
> > and put the timing light on it.
> >
> > Interesting!  It showed about 10 deg BTDC and needed to be *advanced* to
> > smooth out the idle!  Jeff's kit now shows it idling at around 30 deg
> > BTDC
> > and idling like a kitten purring. I will have to crawl under the damned
> > thing and see what the old timing marks show. Either I didn't get Jeff's
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