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Ignition system renewal

Acquiring the Blue coil as an opportunity, I tried the renewal of the ignition system.

At first I replaced the Red coil with Blue one.


The breaker point and the rotor were also replaced with the new ones I bought before.


The breaker point was wearing like this.


New breaker point and new rotor were installed on the distributor.
By the way, the serviceability of the Magneti Marelli distributor was really bad.

After this I tried to start the engine.  I thought the engine would start with roaring the exciting sound, but the engine didn’t start.  There might be some issues on the adjustment of the point gap?  Or problem in the Blue coil?  Or any fault on new breaker point or rotor?  Any issues in the point gap adjustment?  Problem in the Blue coil?  Or any fault on new breaker point or rotor?

I adjusted the point gap, returned the coil to Red one, returned the rotor to old one, and finally returned all to the old parts, I tried many but the engine could not be started on this day.


On the next weekend I tried the revenge. 
This time I checked carefully one by one referring the workshop manual.

First, the opening position of the breaker point was set by rotating the pulley.


Next, the point gap was adjusted to 0.5mm +α using a thickness gauge. 


Then, I loosen the fixing bolt of the distributor and set the fixed advance timing using the voltmeter.


Finally, I tried the restart of the engine … and I succeeded in starting the engine!
After all, I realized “Haste makes waste”.



My working desk was always messy like this. ☺︎


(My original blog was written on 10th and 16th Nov. 2008)
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