I thought I would share an interesting experience with a pertronix
ignitor yesterday. The car, with a BJ8 engine, had been running for
years with the ignitor with no problems at all, when suddenly on a trip
of less than 100 miles it just quit. Other than determining it had no
spark, we could not find anything wrong on the side of the road, even
after replacing the coil, the ignitor module, rotor, cap and wires and
disconnecting all other wires from the coil. Towed it home and resumed
checking, but still found nothing; then just for grins removed the
magnet cap that triggers the ignitor and low and behold there at the
base of the cam were all six magnets. The holding sleeve had come
unglued letting the magnets fall out. One other thing, we replaced them
and re glued the sleeve, but the car would only run on 3 cylinders.
Found out from Pertronix that the magnets have to be aligned by polarity
to work properly. The point learned for me is we overlooked the magnet
cap because everyone knows magnets don't go bad.
John
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