Thanks for posting this; one more thing to add to the fault-finding
database.
Bob
On 6/9/2015 6:34 AM, John Vrugtman wrote:
> 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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