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Offline Don R

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ARD mag, testing Q?
« on: August 02, 2016, 01:50:57 PM »
 What is best to  use on the ends of the solid wires on an ARD mag? Mine had part of a stock looking boot on one wire.  Resistor plug or boot or neither?
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Re: ARD mag, plugs and boots Q?
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2016, 05:52:21 PM »
don,my mag came with right angle boots,much like an auto boot no resister,found them a little hard to route so I went to my auto parts store and got some straight boots,much easier.bill
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Re: ARD mag, plugs and boots Q?
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2016, 08:39:51 PM »
No resistor in the boot or plug? I don't think my drag car had resistor plugs, the mag makes a long duration spark.
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Re: ARD mag, plugs and boots Q?
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2016, 05:46:22 PM »
no resisters don.bill
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Re: ARD mag, plugs and boots Q?
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2016, 09:10:23 PM »
  Thanks, Bill. I can't find NGK boots on ngk's site with no resistors so i'm going to slap on a set of whatever I have just to try it out.

  OK, they can be rubber boots if I screw tops on the plugs. I bought a VW that didn't run once. I towed it home and found american style plug wires on Bosch plugs. I screwed on a set of plug tops borrowed from a set of champions and drove it to work the next day.
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Re: ARD mag, testing Q?
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2016, 04:48:17 PM »
 It doesn't make a spark when I spin it with a drill using a plug grounded to the mag case, my thought is to check continuity at the points and figure out where to check the coil.
 
Update!

No continuity between the points, I closed up the gap and cleaned them and Viola! Sparks! Now I'm going to attempt to set the timing per a manual I printed out. 

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Re: ARD mag, testing Q?
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2016, 06:10:44 PM »
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Re: ARD mag, testing Q?
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2016, 11:57:02 AM »
 The housing has an engraved timing mark and the upper pulley has an ink mark that is faint, It appears the rotor is advanced at #1 which is marked on the cap (thanks Bill) so visually the timing appears good, is there a good way to mark TDC and check with a timing light?  I don't have a dial back light but can get one.
 

 The oil tank has some really old green 50 weight (Kendall?) trapped inside, I think I'd better clean that out somehow. Frank has spotted that green oil in several pictures, you got a good eye Frank.
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Re: ARD mag, testing Q?
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2016, 03:47:53 PM »
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Re: ARD mag, testing Q?
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2016, 05:25:50 PM »
don member sohc boy from oz had something made up for checking with a light,some kind of pointer on the crank pulley with some marks.bill
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