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tristessa
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 Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject: Anyone have a dead Pertronix? |
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| .. or Compufire or Accufire that they haven't thrown out yet? I've been tinkering with the "Vanagon" electronic ignition and an old T3 D-jet distributor and I think the ring-with-magnets part might help me with aligning all the bits. |
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vdubman71
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Location: Nor Cal
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| Im not clear n your question, but there isnt really any alignment necessary with a compufire. Occasionally they do short out though. Try a set of points and if they work, your electronic ignition is the problem. |
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ratwell
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Location: Victoria, BC
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Speaking of dead Pertronix I was watching Full Throttle on the History Channel and the challenge this week was to remove the old 1500cc engine from two '67 beetles and replace them with two Scat 2165cc engines with webers and drag them.
Apart for all the incorrect information and other boners in the show, both teams fried their 009 "performance" distributors by wiring up the coil backwards which friend the Pertronix. Both teams were forced to use the "inefficient" factory vacuum distributor or so they said.
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Sylvester
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: Heh |
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Did they pitch the "crummy" Kadrons and install those hot Webers? Heh
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Schmooey
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I saw that dumbass show, and when each team salvaged the dizzys from the old engines, the winning bug had a stock dizzy, and the loser (I think) had a mech advance unit. It appeared to have no biscuit.
In any case, the show was lame. The guys were too amped up on ego to read the Pertronix instructions.
"Which wire goes where? oh well, I'll just try this way..."
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tristessa
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Im not clear n your question, but there isnt really any alignment necessary with a compufire. Occasionally they do short out though. Try a set of points and if they work, your electronic ignition is the problem. |
What I'm doing is trying to put the factory electronic ignition guts from a watercooled Vanagon distributor into the D-jetronix dizzy from my Fastback. Took a lot of work. The Vanagon shutter wheel for the sensor is the last thing to get in there, and I need to enlarge the hole in the middle to slip it over the existing lobe that the points use. If I had one of the magnetic rings from a Compufire or Pertronix, I could use the hole in that as a template and more easily get the size & shape that I need.
I refuse to put a Pertronix or Compufire in my cars; the one time I tried one I was left stranded, and when I worked in auto parts I saw seven or eight that were DOA .. out of 12 sold before we gave up & quit carrying 'em. |
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rsorak
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I've had a pertronix on a Ford for several years and an accufire on my bus and both have been problem-free so far from day 1. In both I have the stock points in the glove box.
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DurocShark
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| I've had a pertronix on a Ford for several years and an accufire on my bus and both have been problem-free so far from day 1. In both I have the stock points in the glove box. |
And the minute you take those points out is when the units will fail. 
Tristessa: PM me your addy. I'll send you the ring. I had another samba member send me his failed Pertronix and I don't need the ring to dissect the module itself.
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tristessa
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PM sent. Thank you for assisting my insanity.  |
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