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09-06-2009, 08:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2009, 09:48 PM by Mill Knob.)
I am having some problems with my Pertronix Ignition. I placed it in the distributor and hook up the wires to the coil and turn the Key and nothing.:crying:
There is a click coming from the Pertronix Ignition when I turn the key. I have no fire coming from the coil. I pull the plug wire out and layed it on the side of the top but no fire. So what to do?? I took and put the points back in and it started up but it was real rough. So why will it run with points but not with the Pertronix Ignition?
Does any body have ideas?
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I put one in years ago and haven't had any problems. Is it grounded properly? Seems it was a simple install. Everything gapped correctly? I'm giving the obvious and probably not much help. Red wire goes to the + coil, black wire to the - coil and the ground wire inside the distributor gets hooked up under the screw that holds the pickup down. All I saw on mine. Had some stuff built up on the contact rotor that slides around the dist shaft. The rotor button thingy and then the dist cap goes on. Didn't change the wires from the cap? coil wire?
Tim
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Coils can be contankerous - tap it with the handle of a screw driver or even take it out and replace it.
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Did I give you a lemon?
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I wounder if a new OEM coil will work? Or do I need to get a hot one.
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Mill Knob Wrote:I wounder if a new OEM coil will work? Or do I need to get a hot one.
Im not sure. I would think that a oem one would work.
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