Re: Rotor Phase

[Eric Hegstrom <ehegstrom@domain.elided>]

Well I've been took a nice drive on the points (50+ miles, reasonably
warm day, some decent grade, at 50-75 MPH and they seem to have taken
care of the high speed miss. Maybe the magnets got misaligned in the
Pertronix? I will investigate the "rotor phase" when I get back from my
camping trip.

Peace,
Eric

John Hofstetter wrote:

> John L.
> I'm glad you said that, because that was what I was thinking, but
> figured that with you being the acknowledged expert on rotor phasing,
> that you should say it.
> John Hofstetter
> ----------
> From: owner-ihc-digest@domain.elided (ihc-digest)
> To: ihc-digest@domain.elided
> Subject: ihc-digest V6 #792
> Date: Fri, Apr 30, 1999, 4:05 PM
>
> Now that I think about this... your high speed miss could possibly be
> caused by a severe enough rotor phase error with the Pertronix.  Let's
> say
> your rotor phase is off to start with at idle TDC.  As the distributor
> RPMs
> increase, the mechanical advance would move the rotor even further
> from the
> terminal and at some point the spark will jump to the wrong terminal.
> The
> spark will take the path of least resistance, which is the closest
> terminal
> to the rotor... or a ground in some cases.