Reply To: Ranger coil options?

[billw]

Thanks very much for all the great pictures and advice! I’m excited that there may be life for this little engine, after all. I was very surprised and pleased to find out that the original coil was not wound around one, big, U-shaped lamination. I hadn’t noticed that the original was built to install the same way you are suggesting to install the Bendix one. It looks like you cut off your lamination ends using hand tools? That’s all I have available to me, so I will have to take my time and be very careful. I am sure the accuracy and squareness off the cuts affects the strength of the spark. Sorry, but one more question: Do you solder your spark plug and secondary ground wires onto those sphere-shaped lobes, or find some way to mechanically hold them?

Long live American manufacturing!