Earl: really appreciate the input - detailed inspection revealed contact
and used the Dremel to reduce the center terminal about 3/32 inch. Also
installed a ground from the distributor housing to the frame, put in a new
rotor and started right up and has been running great so far. THANKS . Dave
W.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Earl Kagna" <kags@shaw.ca>
To: "Kelewhit" <kelewhit@comcast.net>; "Healey List"
<healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: BJ8 Spark "Challenge"-I Think
> 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"
> elated --
> 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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