
Pertronix Ignitor trouble.
Re: Pertronix Ignitor trouble.
sorry, also taking the advice from fbvan to stick with the Pertronix kit, cheers mate 

Re: Pertronix Ignitor trouble.
Got it going, good news.
Sounds like it's out 1 tooth.
Sounds like it's out 1 tooth.
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Re: Pertronix Ignitor trouble.
Gotta get to work soon, so i'll leave it as is for now and try shifting it tomorrow, cheers mate.
Re: Pertronix Ignitor trouble.
Utek,
Sounds like Trev is right, and it's out by one tooth (over retarded). It interesting that you found:
It is possible when pulling apart a dizzy that you cannot get the timing ball directly under the timing gear window. The symptoms of this are:
• the timing mark appears to the far right of the window no matter how far you advance the distributor. It feels like you have the distributor off by one tooth. However,
• if you move the distributor around one tooth, the timing mark appears to the far left of the window no matter how far you retard the distributor.
It feels like you are “stuck” between too much advance, and too much retard. The car will (probably) run in either extra-advanced or extra-retarded positions, but will either ping or run sluggishly (sounds like yours is overly retarded and sluggish at the moment). If this is the case:
• with the engine stopped, move the engine around until the until the timing ball is directly under the timing window pointer and the distributor is pointing to cylinder #1.
• loosen the ½” bolt in the distributor advance/retard plate and set the distributor to about ½ way between full advance and full retard (i.e. zero advance and zero retard) on the advance/retard plate.
• slacken the slot-headed clamp around the distributor body.
• with the timing light and engine running, turn the distributor body until the timing ball is directly under the timing window pointer.
• tighten the slot-headed clamp around the distributor body.
Cheers,
Harv.
Sounds like Trev is right, and it's out by one tooth (over retarded). It interesting that you found:
. If you move it around one tooth and find that you are now "overly advanced", then the below may help.UTEK wrote:It seemed that there was two different positions that the dizzy could sit and still have the rotor and mark lined up- one really advanced and one really retarded.
It is possible when pulling apart a dizzy that you cannot get the timing ball directly under the timing gear window. The symptoms of this are:
• the timing mark appears to the far right of the window no matter how far you advance the distributor. It feels like you have the distributor off by one tooth. However,
• if you move the distributor around one tooth, the timing mark appears to the far left of the window no matter how far you retard the distributor.
It feels like you are “stuck” between too much advance, and too much retard. The car will (probably) run in either extra-advanced or extra-retarded positions, but will either ping or run sluggishly (sounds like yours is overly retarded and sluggish at the moment). If this is the case:
• with the engine stopped, move the engine around until the until the timing ball is directly under the timing window pointer and the distributor is pointing to cylinder #1.
• loosen the ½” bolt in the distributor advance/retard plate and set the distributor to about ½ way between full advance and full retard (i.e. zero advance and zero retard) on the advance/retard plate.
• slacken the slot-headed clamp around the distributor body.
• with the timing light and engine running, turn the distributor body until the timing ball is directly under the timing window pointer.
• tighten the slot-headed clamp around the distributor body.
Cheers,
Harv.
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Re: Pertronix Ignitor trouble.
Thanks for the in-depth 'how to', Harv, very informative indeed. I took the dizzy off again yesterday and moved it around one tooth and all was perfect. Hooked up the timing light (which by the way is so stupidly difficult to use with the dizzy right in your line of sight!) and just had to retard it a bit and now it's smooth as silk.
Thanks again to everyone who helped me out with this,
Cheers,
Ryan
Thanks again to everyone who helped me out with this,
Cheers,
Ryan