In a message dated 4/18/09 5:36:13 PM, healeys-request@autox.team.net
writes:
>
> We fired up the Healey for the first time this year yesterday. I drove two
> blocks and she died. After checking everything I could think of I have
> decided that the problem is the Petronics ignition. I have heard that they
> can cause problems and several of my LBC friends have gone back to
> standard
> points. My question is when the fail, do they normally go all at once?
> This
> time the car just died and I could get nothing more after that. Thanks, JL
>
> James Lea
> PO Box 25
> Rockport Maine 04856
> 1-207-236-3632
>
Do not automatically assume that it was the Pertronix that failed. Unless,
of course, you open the distributor cap and discover that the Pertronix has
come apart inside the distributor (Which was the way 99 percent of them
failed, so I'm told, way back when, due to a batch where the plastic control
box
was badly glued onto the base plate.) However, it shouldn't be much of a
job to swap the original points back into the system if you have checked
everything else and have concluded that you're not getting spark. If the
Pertronix is new to your car, the first thing I'd be looking at is the
condition of
the Rotor and Brush, to see if they are intact and that the rotor is seated
far enough down on the shaft so that it has adequate clearance with the top
of the cap (which I learned from experience was one of the ways a good
Pertronix, badly installed, could fail.)
Good luck.
Gary
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