So I spent my evening hunched over the back end of the orange beauty and things did not go that well. I read Wayne's article and thought that maybe I could knock this out in four hours. Turns out that was not the case.
I started by working on getting the old perma tune CDI out and the aluminum panel unattached. I had a few missteps here and ended up pulling the hose off to make more room to work. Then things got interesting.
The old perma tune blue box is just over half the size of the MSD 6425 so I did some head scratching and searched through this forum for photos of installations. I didn't see one that I could follow that would be easy. I had an extra component on the electrical panel that I had not seen in photos or that I recall being written about. It is a beru part, and shown in the photo. With this on the panel, making room for the MSD was looking hopeless.
I put the panel all back together and reattached the hose and decided that in the time I had left this evening I could replace the Bosch coil with the MSD unit I bought to match the new CDI. This took a little doing considering the mount was built for the slimmer Bosch and it took a little extra convincing to get the new coil in. Once in, I reattached the battery and tried to fire it up.
Same result, the starter turned fine but the engine didn't catch. I smelled a little fuel so I am still convinced it is a spark issue.
Tomorrow I will check the points and give more thought to the placement of the MSD.
Here are a couple of questions. What is the brown beru part in the picture and will I need it with the new CDI? Also will I need the tach adapter that I bought? If I do, I need to get creative on mounting that too.
Also, any creative mounting or placement ideas would be appreciated.
Oh, one more, and don't laugh.., I still can't see where the starter is. I am thinking that is the place for the 12V connection. Any pics on where this is on a 2.7?
Thanks for all of the insights so far.
