I had the laminates out of the Military coil in about 20 minutes this morning,
using the punch rod in the hole I drilled in the laminates, as before,
but this time I sprayed silicone in the hole. I used bunches of tap / drill oil
when I was drilling the hole, but the silicone seemed to work wonders.
I worked all day doing the coil swap, machining the laminates from the original
style Sea King coil, de-burring each one, cleaning, polishing, and fitting.
Also made up a new “cap in the can”. The one I had rigged up for the modified
Zephyr coil was .15 mfd. I have been using .22 mfd caps when using these Military,
Scintilla type coils…….correct or not, I’m not sure. I tried researching this in the
past, but never figured it out.
Anyway, it appears to have / had good spark when I spun it over with the drill
for it’s film debut. When I stopped spinning the engine over with my cordless
drill, the motor kept turning, the drill did not, so it spun the flywheel loose. 🙁
No problem, I thought. I tightened it back down, and then had NO spark!!!!
I was afraid to pull the flywheel off to see what went wrong, after working on
this thing all day when it was 94 degrees out, but I did anyway.
It had the wrong flywheel key in the crankshaft, that wasn’t deep enough.
The flywheel nut starts threading on before the key and keyway line up.
It must have been “out of alignment”, and when I tightened the flywheel down,
it pushed the key flush with the crankshaft, hence the magic that makes the
spark did not happen.
Not sure if I put the wrong key in two years ago, or some other nimrod.
Hopefully I can remedy this tomorrow, and even do a test start in the barrel.
VIDEO of Joy and Despair……
Prepare to be boarded!