Alan---what effect does age have on a Pertronix?
Thanks
tom
> [Original Message]
> From: Blue One Hundred <international_investor@yahoo.com>
> To: <Awgertoo@aol.com>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 7/20/04 12:14:47 AM
> Subject: Re: BN7--Intermittent miss, continued
>
> Michael -
>
> Are you using solid wire or graphite core spark plug
> wires? If you are using graphite wires, that can be
> the source of your weak spark problem (you get a miss
> under the conditions you are talking about if you have
> weak spark). Also... is your coil new or very old?
> Is your engine properly grounded? Are you using
> points and condensor or Pertronix system? If it's a
> pertronix system, how old is it? Answer these
> questions and then we can better diagnose.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan
>
> '53 BN1 '64 BJ8
>
> --- Awgertoo@aol.com wrote:
> > I posted a few weeks back about an intermittent miss
> > on the 3000, to which I
> > received a number of helpful, if inconsistent,
> > replies--some suggesting
> > mixture and others spark.. In the interim, the
> > intermittency has become "less
> > intermittent", appears pretty regularly when
> > accelerating slowly or moderately from
> > low RPM's (2000 or so) and seems to be more of a
> > fluttering at constant
> > cruising speeds (3000 or so) but does NOT appear
> > under load--there is no miss under
> > hard acceleration all the way up to redline.
> >
> > Under the theory that most carburettor problems are
> > spark-related I thought
> > that I would start with the ignition system. In
> > doing an "in-the-dark" test
> > for visible spark leaks tonight I happened to rest
> > my forearm on both the
> > ignition cap and fender and got a definite shock
> > which seems to be coming from
> > around the coil lead where it comes out of the cap,
> > though nothing was visible. I
> > could not find any crack or arc trail on the cap
> > either in or out, but I
> > wonder if this is signifigant?
> >
> > Best--Michael Oritt
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