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- From: Steve.Kaess@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Kaess)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Converting to electronic ignition
- Message-ID: <715384854.F00004@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 15:14:42 -0500
- Lines: 62
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- >
- > [1] Several people indicated that cars manufactured after
- > 70's in US all
- > use electronic ignition. However, I found many (maybe most?)
- > cars in OZ
- > before 85(?) still use contact points ignition. Does anyone
- > has an
- > explanation to this? One thing I could think of is that
- > OZ is not cold
- > enough in winter to cause icing problem for contact points,
- > so it is not
- > necessary to use electronic ignition and that the MAIN
- > advantage of the
- > electronic ignition over the conventional contact points
- > is that the EI
- > works better in cold winter.
- BZZT WRONG!! no maintance required, lower emissions, better
- performance(emissions, power, drivability) longer spark plug life
-
- >
- > [2] Everybody expressed that the EI is superior to the
- > contact points
- > ignition. Does the contact points ignition has anything
- > better than the EI?
- NO!!..wait...it is cheaper for the manufacturer...
- > [3] In my original post, I said that the points in my car
- > were burnt in
- > 6 months of time. Several replied indicated that this is
- > too short. They
- > suggested me to check the capacitor and the coil, etc..
- > Actually, the
- > points were badly pitted and the color of the contact surface
- > was
- > black/blue. I checked the capacitor using a multi-meter
- > resistance range.
- > The needle moved a bit and returned to infinite resistance
- > reading. From
- > my knowledge of electronics, there was nothing wrong with
- > the capacitor.
- > Do you know how to test the coil? The ballast resistor
- > was changed
- > several month ago on the road side by the RACV mobile repairer
- > and I am
- > not sure if they put the right resistor or not. Do you
- > know the
- > specifications of the ballast resistor for a 4KC engine?
- >
- Come on guy!!! a damm condensor is 3 bucks...In the states we would
- change the condensor wity the points as pm...perhaps the condensor
- has a failure mode in other tempiture conditions then those under
- your test?? your problems are yelling "replace the condensor, replace
- the condensor"...as to the ballest resistor...gosh 20 bucks to go
- to toyota to get a brand new'right' one...but replace the condensor
- first...
- > [4] I did a carburetter job about a year ago because the
- > engine did not
- > deliver much power in high throttle. Press the accelerator
- > pedal further
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