elec ign for 310 waukesha

bobidan · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:35 pm Post subject: elec ign for 310 waukesha

dist# is 1112587 delco anybody got a part number or good place to get one thanks

Cody · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

Get you a new set of points and an MSD 6A box off craigslist.

Gary Baker · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

Cody, i disagree with you. Petronix work great with MSD boxes. The MSD only requires a trigger and has no load on Petronix, so they will work forever. Points on the other hand corrode and are not consistant. Why do you think all newer gasoline vehicles use electronic ignitions? Much more consistant and way more reliable.

Cody · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

There is alot of difference in a distibutor with a factory magnetic pickup then the cheap pertronix junk. The points will not corrode since they are only carring a low voltage to trigger the MSD box. If one must have an electronic ignition I would reccomend fitting a 292 chevy distributor in the waukesha block. Even if a set of points do happen to corrode up at the track it is possible to scuff them off and save the day. Hard to fix a P.O.S. pertronix rotor when it burns a hole out the side. I'm just speaking from my experences.... to each their own.

Gary Baker · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:02 am Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

Cody, ive installed hundreds and never had one issue. You must have been using them direct to a coil and using the wrong coil. This will burn them out and so will hooking up reverse polarity. Like we both agree on MSD has no load to petronix, so why are you burning them up?

mm fan · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 5:30 am Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

These guys have great service and good pricing. just call them with your distributor number and they will match it up. I have have several pertronix ignitors and not had any go bad, I have seen one on another tractor go bad at a pull. THey seem reliable to me, just make sure and hook them up properly.
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bobidan · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:08 am Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

i talked to them yesterday and got one coming thanks for the replies

MLPANKEY · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:31 am Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

A hei adapted to any tractor engine is eons ahead of a petronix point conversion hall effect system .jmho

Cody · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:57 am Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

I must have gotten a bad batch? LOL. I'm not sure what the problem was on them, but since we swapped back to points I've had no more problems. Another thing that gets me about the pertronix is having to hunt thru distributors to find one that the shaft is good enough so the little collar doesn't move around. Most of these things are 50yrs old and that isn't an easy thing to find. Either way, everyone has their preferences.

LCB · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: elec ign for 310 waukesha

Elec ign only way to go.A lot of poeple around here putting them in show tractors and tractors that they are useing around farm.

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