[T3] Ignition Questions.

Daniel K. Du Vall dduvall at 1peter4-10.org
Sun Jun 14 19:00:56 PDT 2015


http://www.pertronix.com/prod/ig/ignitor/default.aspx

I have run many in my time fact still running one. :-)

Daniel Du Vall
http://1peter4-10.org
http://volkswageninsanity.us

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Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 8:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [T3] Ignition Questions.

"Looks like a petronix"

I looked that up. I think you are right. I have never had one, and I would have had to take it apart to read it. Thanks for spotting that for me.

Adam

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:42 PM, jeffrey gunnarson <clockdoc56 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Looks like a petronix
> On Jun 14, 2015 6:22 PM, "Craigs List" <craigslistcsprings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Crew,
> >
> > This weekend has been a blast. The old car is running really good, 
> > but I felt like it was missing at low RPM. Just a gentle loss of 
> > power....an intermittent miss..at low RPM.
> >
> > The first thing I did was replace the coil wire and the #2 spark 
> > plug
> wire.
> > The #2 has tape on one section leading me to believe it might have 
> > been bleeding spark to cause the miss.  I have a full of new plug 
> > wires at
> hand,
> > but the new set is made for plugs without the tips on them. The set 
> > on
> the
> > car are for plugs with the tips screwed on, so I have to remove all 
> > of
> the
> > plugs. Replacing the two wires helped, but it wasn't 100%.
> >
> > Next, I pulled the distributor cap off. I was told I had electronic 
> > ignition and I wanted to see what kind. I'm glad I did because it 
> > made me realize the distributor cap positioning indention was 
> > rounded off on the cap. You could move the cap when it was supposed to be set in position.
> > Easy enough, I have 2 extra distributors in the tool box under the hood.
> > Got that swapped out.
> >
> > Since I did that, I threw the timing light on. I can tell the 
> > advance works, but I cannot time it. Seems that the cheap ass timing 
> > light I have decided to quit working. It still blinks, but I cannot 
> > adjust to see how much advance I am getting at full advance. Thanks 
> > Harbor Freight. :)
> >
> > So I took it for a drive to see what the butt dyno tells me. I think 
> > I am all good.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what ignition I have?
> >
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1364190.jpg
> >
> > The dizzy is a Chinese 009. That might have to go, but it runs fine 
> > for now. Why mess with it?
> >
> > What ignition setups are you guys running? I'm asking those with
> non-stock
> > setups. My long-term plan is going full EFI on this one. I like to 
> > mess around, so I might have an 100 iterations on the way to getting 
> > there. :)
> >
> > Adam
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