Breakerless ignition bad?
Race Director
Joined: Oct 2019
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From: Deep in the Pisgah National Forest
I keep a spare HEI module too... had 2 fail on me in 6,000 miles... beefed up the wiring to the HEI and ironically after the last advance auto one failed I used a middle of the road ebay replacement a few years ago and all seems ok now.
I used to keep a set of points in my old vw kit car too because I didnt trust that pertronix module but it never failed on me. Used to read of failures on the samba forum all the time though. My stock 74 distributor had a very old looking functioning pertronix in it but I replaced the distributor with an hei when I replaced the engine after driving it home.
I used to keep a set of points in my old vw kit car too because I didnt trust that pertronix module but it never failed on me. Used to read of failures on the samba forum all the time though. My stock 74 distributor had a very old looking functioning pertronix in it but I replaced the distributor with an hei when I replaced the engine after driving it home.
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From: Was New Orleans but swam to Baton Rouge LA
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Drifting
Joined: Mar 2006
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From: Wabasha Mn
Sure seems like there are a lot of failures out there with these points conversions to electronic gadgets. Smart idea to carry a set of points and condenser just in case!
