RT, thanks for posting about the .009″ point gap. I can’t wait to try that. Now, I have something to add. Nobody is going to believe this, but whatever. I recently was flogging a KE7, which has the Bendix mag. I had new coils, new condensers, very clean points, new plug wires, etc. Still, it had misfire. Tried closing the plug gap to .015″ which has worked for me in the past. Still, fouling plugs and misfire. I inspected the mag again. I noted the small amount of insulating compound that remained on the rubber coil mounting pads. I stuck a digital ohm meter across the stuff and it had some continuity! Meg ohms, but continuity. I scraped and cleaned this crud off with some solvent a couple of times, until I got no more continuity. I checked spark with an open gap tester and noted that it now jumped further than it had. I ran the engine again, with everything else being exactly the same as it was, except resetting the plugs back to .025.” It ran as flawlessly as an OMC. I have never seen a Bendix run that well.
Long live American manufacturing!
