Dave:
Something that happened to me with a friends BJ8 awhile back:
After intalling a Pertronix, the car ran for awhile and quit - just like
yours. Turned out that the magnetic wheel of the Pertronix all but
eliminated the clearance between the rotor and the dome of the centre
terminal of the dist cap - fried the rotor real quick!
The fix in that case was to reduce the 'height' of the centre terminal
sligtly with a Dremel tool. I guess some distributors had less 'height'
clearance than others - this particular one had been rebushed, and probably
lost a bit right there. The rotor and centre terminal showed obvious
contact when examined.
Could be that's your problem.
Earl Kagna
Victoria, B.C.
BT7 tri-carb
BJ8
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelewhit" <kelewhit@comcast.net>
To: "healeylist" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 9:12 AM
Subject: BJ8 Spark "Challenge"-I Think
Took BJ8 out for excercise and about 60 it "missed' a couple of times and
died - would not start. Towed it home and pulled fuel line and good flow at
carbs. On to ignition - good sparkfrom coil both when wire removed from
distributor cap and inside cap but no spark when pulled plug and grounded
against block. Replaced rotor (Have Pertronix ignition installed last year)
and she fired right up. Started 3 times but after running about 10 minutes
died again and will not start - same story - good spark from coil but no
spark
to plug. Thinking distributor cap I changed it out with one I had but same
story. Also switched back rotor with no luck. Seems like if getting spark
from
coil to cap it would be rotor or cap problem and could be "heat" related --
am I missing something?? Have spent a few hours in the archives and not too
encouraged. Could it be an intermittant problem with coil ? Any suggestions
would be welcome. Thanks Dave W. BJ8
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