Reply To: Ranger coil options?

[billw]

Mine is a 1940, with magnets in the flywheel. I have a Pal, also but the tank is full of holes and it has a broken skeg. That discourages me doing much of anything with it. It, too, appears to have an open coil secondary, although I haven’t tried to get spark out of it, at all. It also feels low on compression. A real honey for the money. I was hoping I could use parts from it to save my second Sea King Midget Single, that has a bad (rust-pitted) cylinder and somehow, a bent crank. However, there doesn’t seem to be much, if any, compatibility between the two. Maybe the crank itself, but I haven’t taken it apart, yet.

As for connecting the coil wire, these two-output, Bendix-style coils just have what appear to be small, half-spheres of maybe solder, maybe not, instead of the usual small ring that you could loop the stripped end of a spark plug wire through. No way to loop anything through them.

Long live American manufacturing!