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MG MGA - Well here I am waiting for the rollback

No fire. pertronix dizzy and module. Do I have a spare. 'Course not. This doesn't happ to me. I walk through rain and don't ge wet. Well, sometimes Jud
J. K. Chapin

Go back to points and condensor!
Cam Cunningham

After all, condensors never fail!
I bet Colyn carries a spare (distributor!).
Graeme Williams

Well, so much for my roadside diagnostic abilities but at least I now know the symptoms of a failed coil: (1) just like turning the key off; (2) danged thing is oily in a clean engine compartment. After the ride of shame on the rollback to my garage, I, just on a lark and because it was easier than pulling the distributor to replace the Pertronix module, tested the coil and my V-Ohm meter read "open." Unbelievably, it just so happens that I had on the shelf a brand new coil intended ultimately for the TD. Stuck it in, turned the key, pulled the knob and heard one of the sweetest sounds known to mankind - the sweet purr of an MGA running on all four.

Cam, the original distributor with its points and condenser is going to Jeff at Advance Distributors and may well go back in with the Pertronix in the boot as a backup.

Jud
J. K. Chapin

Remember Jud, if you do go back to points, you'll have to re-wire the coil.

Pertronix, 2 wires. Points, 1 wire.

In the TD, (pertronix in a stock dizzy) I keep the points plate and a wire diagram.
MAndrus

Yup, I keep an extra already set-up points plate in both the TD and the MGB. It doesn't look like the Pertronix module can be swapped out of the Pertronix dizzy that the PO installed in the MGA. I've sent the original 40510 dizzy for the MGA off to Jeff at Advanced Distributors for R&R.

Jud
J. K. Chapin

This thread was discussed between 28/04/2016 and 03/05/2016

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