Reply To: Charging 85 hp 1972–upgrade stator?

[amuller]

Thanks, frank. This motor isn’t idling properly–it sneezes and revs up and down. I have no evidence but my gut feeling is that it’s the POS distributor. I looked for carbon tracks and other obvious stuff when I had it open and didn’t see anything. I can try to localize it to a cylinder, but aside from that, what should I look for?

This ignition kinda seems like the worst of all words–potentially troublesome and expensive CD box, and POS mechanical distributor. I like the old 4 cylinder West Bend ignition: four point sets, mounted at 90 degrees, each firing it’s own coil. No electronics. No distributor. I suspect if I got motivated I could gin one up.