Pertronix Ignitor

[jwmc1]

I purchased a Pertronix Ignitor, but something seems to be wrong. The magnetic sleeve that goes over the distributor shaft does not seem to belarge enough and therefore the rotor cannot go all the way on. Does this sound familiar to anyone, am I doing something wrong?

[jwmc1]

This part of the shaft gets in the way (red arrow)....



The the lip on the magnet catches it (red arrow)....

[grant lyon]

Are you trying to install the magnet carrier upside down?
Orientation: in 1st picture, your distributor shaft is (more or less) pointing up, in 2nd picture you have magnet carrier upside down -- as in bottom side up. Flip the magnet carrier over (relative to picture view), and push down onto the distributor shaft with slight rotation. You're trying to line up the flats on a portion of the carrier ID with the flats on the distributor shaft OD. If you push the carrier down with a slight twisting motion, you should be able to get the flats of the two parts to line up (~60° rotation or less should do). Once rotated to line up the flats, the carrier part will kind of catch and then you can push the carrier further down so it seats. When the carrier is all the way down in position, the flange to which the arrow points in the 2nd photo will be all the way down on the cylindrical portion of the distributor shaft and rest on top of the lobed section of the distributor shaft (just above the arrow in the 1st photo). Same concept as putting the rotor on the distributor shaft and hunting for the locating notch by turning back and forth while pushing down. If this is all obvious to you, then maybe your problem isn't the orientation of the carrier vs shaft. To which I'd comment that the carrier was a tight fit on my installation -- obviously an intentional interference fit.

[RoninLB]

Originally posted by grant lyon
To which I'd comment that the carrier was a tight fit on my installation -- obviously an intentional interference fit.

ditto

[jwmc1]

I got it...just needed a little help

[jwmc1]

I put my Ignitor on...I slammed that magnet down, it all went together...

My coil has a white wire off the positive lead and a brown wire off the neg lead. The brown goes to the post on the fan housing. There is a white wire from a plus on the distributor and off that wire there is a ground wire to the chain housing cover. When I put the ignitor on, do I just connect the red wire from the ignoitor to the red wire going into the CD box and the black wire to any ground source and leave the other wires to the coil in place?

Which is the tach wire anyway?

Thanks

[jwmc1]

This is the diagram on the pertonix web site...

The red wire goes to a power source. Take a volt meter to your read wire on the CD box and turn on the ignition. If it reads battery voltage, then splice it in.