William,
I use a Petronix unit in my Bosch distributor on my 1600 Ford Crossflow.
The unit lives entirely in the distributor and utilizes a magnetic pickup.
During installation, I had to file a bit of the distributor rotor base as
it rubbed against the Petronix unit. Have had no problems in the 1 year and
about 2000 miles since installation. Timing is still spot on. Although I am
having problems with my Smiths electronic tachometer. The tach needle get
momentarily erratic under hard acceleration. The Petronix guys say its a
tach problem, the tach guys say it's the Petronix unit and sold me a small
black box which is supposed to eliminate this. I will try it out and let
you know if it worked.
Regards,
John
P.S. I keep the old points and condenser in the car. just in case....
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From: William Zehring <zehrinwa @ UMDNJ.EDU> on 07/13/99 01:03 PM PDT
To: morgans @ autox.team.net@SMTP@Exchange
cc: tvr @ autox.team.net@SMTP@Exchange
Subject: electronic points
Dear all:
Has anyone made the conversion from conventional points to the
electronic/optical types that are currently available? I gather that they
fit nicely inside the original Lucas distributors and don't offer any
visual clue to their presence. Any problems? Easy installation?
Comments/criticisms?
Will 'sick of points' Zehring
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