[TR] [Spits] Pertronix Failure

[Karl Vacek]

Maybe you don't need a new distributor.

My wife's '78 1500 Midget (extremely unmolested except for this change) was 
retrofitted with the CEI unit, but the distribtuor itself is still the 
original OPUS unit with the box sticking off the side -- but there's nothing 
in the box any more.  Whoever retrofitted it put a Lucas "Lumenition" module 
on the fenderwell right next to the unit and wired the red, blue, and brown 
loom of the "Lumenition" system into the vehicles's wiring, leaving the 
original distributor plug in the vehicle's wiring harness unused (and of 
course the OPUS plug is gone from the distributor).

I've always assumed this was a retrofit kit dealers got at the time, 
although as I recall from the bills with the car, a non-dealer mechanic did 
this work maybe 20 years ago.

If you want to know more about what was done, I'll sort through it for you.

Karl


> It is an original original OPUS module mounted on the side of the
> distributor.  I installed the distributor in the mid 90's when my 2nd
> petronix unit died.  One of the places in town that works on MG's & 
> Triumphs
> had it in a box and didn't know if it would work, he told me to bring him 
> $5
> if it worked. I took him the $5 the next week.  It has finally died.
>
> -- 
> Bob Berger
> 78 Spitfire
> St. Louis, MO