The points that came with the distributor are different than the original.
What do you mean by wire tail. The original points had a black and
white striped wire, the new ones do not. I visually inspected and gapped
the points, the new ones, and they do open, but they are different from the
Of Jim Lewandowski
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 3:47 PM
To: Peter Frederick; Mercedes mailing list; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] W108 280 SEL 4.5L ignition problem
Hi,
thank you both for replying to my post. Still have the problem, let
me go through what I have done:
The distributer
Jim:
The Pertronix system will be much better than the original, but if you want to
install the points, the black wire goes to the same place as the green one. It
will serve as the trigger for the transistor switchbox to ground the coil.
If you only have 6V to the coil, you have a wiring
Greetings,
I just installed a rebuilt distributor into my 1973 4.5L and I have a couple
of issues.
There is a black wire that the points hooks to, that I'm not sure where to
hook up, the old one had a green wire that ran down to a transistor mounted
near the radiator.
I think I might have a
There is a black wire that the points hooks to, that I'm not sure
where to
hook up, the old one had a green wire that ran down to a transistor
mounted
near the radiator.
What about the extra set of points for the FI system?
Coils only get around 6V normally due to the ballast resistor.
These
So the 6V is ok? I recently measured 13V, maybe that was when it was running
or
to a body ground.
The FI trigger points are installed, the old ones from the other
distributor.
I'm not getting any spark when I turn over the motor.
On 11/22/05, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a
So the 6V is ok? I recently measured 13V, maybe that was when
Something less than 12V at the coil is OK, but I'm not sure what
the exact number should be. 6V or more for sure I'd think.
I'm not getting any spark when I turn over the motor.
And that's obviously bad.
-- Jim
So the 6V is ok? I recently measured 13V, maybe that was when
Something less than 12V at the coil is OK, but I'm not sure what
the exact number should be. 6V or more for sure I'd think.
I meant to say that I'd always thought that the normal low coil
voltage was a relic of the change from 6V
