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I just installed a Pertronix Ignition system on the / and now I'm not getting any fire to teh spark plugs have followed the instructions to the letter and tripled chack everthing and still no luck. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions. I'm totally lost on this one, if I cannot get this figured out I'm heading to the local pick apart lot and going to try and find a complete electronic ignition system.
Thanks FABO for any help
 
ok so just to make sure you put the red lead from the petx to the hot side of the coil and the black to the negative... good ok

so now bridge the ballast resistor by either removing it and put spades on a piece of wire or solder a piece of wire to the back to make the factory look work!

i.e. if you have the ballast on it thats probably the problem...
 
Thr directions I have says run the red wire to the ignition side of the resistor. It does not say anything about running the red to the coil and jumping the resistor. I will give this a try today and see what happens.
Thanks
 
38 Dodge said:
Thr directions I have says run the red wire to the ignition side of the resistor. It does not say anything about running the red to the coil and jumping the resistor. I will give this a try today and see what happens.
Thanks
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they are changing the direction every time somebody buys one of these things! last week somebody just left the ballast on it...

these people are goofy...
 
805moparkid said:
correct except ballast needs to be bypassed
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Maybe on the 2, but not the 1.

That's why I asked him if he had the 1 or 2.

Had my Pertronix 1 hooked up like I suggested for over 5 years without touching it.
 
Johnny Dart said:
Maybe on the 2, but not the 1.

That's why I asked him if he had the 1 or 2.

Had my Pertronix 1 hooked up like I suggested for over 5 years without touching it.
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hmm... the two says bypass it... well try it both ways! makes sense though that a 12v electronic needs 12v not 6v like you get from the ballast...

just had somebody else have this problem on here last week and it was cuz they didn't bypass...
 
OK here is the latest
I bye passed the ballest as stated here and rewired black to - and red to + on the coil and I got the / fired up.
Thanks for all the help FABO
 
38 Dodge said:
OK here is the latest
I bye passed the ballest as stated here and rewired black to - and red to + on the coil and I got the / fired up.
Thanks for all the help FABO
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cool! as far as not bypassing it if you have time you should try not bypassing it... just for giggles

the destruction when i got mine said if you dont bypass the ballast it may or may not run, it could run and then die, then not start for any given time, and a bunch of other weird symptoms...

glad it is going for you tho!
 
Mopar Ballast resistor is current limiting as well as voltage limiting as it gets hotter. 7-9V is what it passes hot, and they get pretty freakin hot (stepping 12V down to 7-9 releases some heat). Im sure the Pertronix can handle 12V. Try running an MSD6 box through the ballast resistor, probably will crap out as soon as it gets warm.
 
I am having a bad day...... Looking at going to Pertronix 1, and see if my distributor reads and runs better on it then my moPar ecu does!!!!!!
braking light or magnetic :???::???:
 
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