[Healeys] Distributor guy

[Tom Felts]

I keep a spare Pertronix (in my cars) and have replaced one once.  I burned it out, it did not fail
  Oh, and it took about 6 minutes to replace
  Try that with points:)
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From: ahbn6--- via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
To: 'Jim Ryan' <ryan at jimryan.com>, 'patrick williams' <2x2doc at gmail.com>
Cc: 'List Healey' <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:04:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Distributor guy

To add more fuel to the fire, while driving on the freeway in Las Vegas years ago I had the rotor on my BN6 split in two. A highway patrolman stopped and repaired it with super glue and a rubber band. I limped home 15 miles – put on another rotor and kept a spare for safety and the repaired one in the parcel shelve for memories. Try that with a Pertronix unit

 

John Sims

 <http://www.healey6.com/> www.healey6.com

Matawan, NJ

 

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Jim Ryan
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2022 10:12 AM
To: patrick williams <2x2doc at gmail.com>
Cc: List Healey <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Distributor guy

 

Just wondering, the debate between this unit and the original points has always been that you can replace the points in the event of a failure on the side of the road. How difficult is it to replace this unit in the same manner if you carried a spare, and what would the cost be for that spare? I'm referring to a1958 Bugeye here.

 

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 8:21 AM patrick williams <2x2doc at gmail.com <mailto:2x2doc at gmail.com> > wrote:

It's been close to 20 years ago, but Jeff rebuilt my distributor, including the vacuum advance diaphram, and put in a pertronix unit.  I'm very happy with the results.

Pat Williams

1960 BT7

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