Technical Unknown points conversion

Does this look familiar to anyone? My stock 63 rambler died last fall and now it's running. Pretty sure I lost spark. Anyone know what I have here?


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Looks like an older Pertronix kit with that breaker plate.

 

Has to be over ten years minimum.
With the random dying I thought I might want to have a replacement on hand.
Maybe I should find the vendor on the HAMB?
I'm sure there's no one in Canada selling these?


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Pertronix?

Paging @hotroddon

 

Electronic conversion at any rate.

 

Thanks guys. I'll see if I can message Mr hotroddon.


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Yes that is a PerTronix module

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find a stock point distributor to get some parts from, and fix it back how it was designed to be....

 

Stock breaker plate will be in there, you should be able to remove the Petronix components and add points and condenser for your Rambler application. When you take the electronics out you will need to add a new wire from the coil to points. If your cap and rotor are on good shape run them.

 

I do like points. Have them in the flathead. This was in the car when I got it ten years ago.


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Cap and rotor are good. Will the coil still be ok? It's a 1.5 ohm aftermarket coil.


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Wow. My local Napa store has the points and condenser in stock. Maybe I'll run those for the weekend.
Hope the coil will work ok.


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You will either need a 3 ohm coil or a 1.5 ohm ballast resistor

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Thanks. But the pertronix uses a 1.5 without ballast? How much are replacements?


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The trigger looks like a 1181. They are about $80/USD.

A ballast resistor is ~$6-$18/USD.

A NAPA 1.5-ohm ballast resistor is: ECH ICR108.

 

I forgot about the clamp for the condenser, you will need to round one up.

 

This one?



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You are good to go, it is not always supplied.

 

It's the tiny screw that holds the clamp on, that usually drives me crazy trying to find one

 

I keep a few spares jammed inside the bottom of most distributors I work on.

 

Nobody mentioned the reluctor wheel. Fairly certain that something went in place of the cam that bumps the points. Yes? No? Tape?

 

No. The reluctor wheel on this model is bolted on under the rotor, on the same screws that hold the rotor down:

You can see it as the black ring, under the brown rotor. See how the fasteners come up from below, and not down from the top?

The point cam is still there, just going along for the ride.

 

Awesome gimpy, forgot about that. Makes his swap-over all the easier.

 

Yup. I does not even need to come out, as far as I know. It can stay in until the next rotor change.

 

Yep. It's all there except the little screw.

Thanks again guys. Really appreciate the advise.


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If you put a test light on the negative terminal of the coil it should blink when cranking