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[lewBlew]

Help!

Bought a Powerspark ignition unit from SimonBBC, and trying to fit it now, and for the life of me I can't fit the rotor arm which came with the kit. Either of them - there's a black weird shaped one which I am supposed to fit but also a black magnetic ring and red arm which is for aftermarket dizzys apparently. Neither the black weird shaped one or the black ring will go over the spindle.

I'd rather use the black ring + red rotor arm to be honest as it seems less weird, but no good when neither will fit.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? It's really annoying me!

This is the one I've bought: http://www.simonbbc....kit?cPath=2_19

[SA MINI]

Hi I've got that exact kit from Simon bbc
Mine is for the 59 D distributor .
I thake it you have bought the correct kit for your distributor?
On mine The black washer is the magneto pickup so that needs to fit on the square dizzy spindle. Mine was a very tight fit but went on with a gentle tap.
Then my black rotor arm when lined up with the slot ob the dizzy shaft it pushed on just as it should. You can still use the original rotor arm though if you still can't get it on .

What dizzy have you got & what's your engine & year ?

[lewBlew]

Hi mate, yes 99.9% sure I've got the right kit. Mine's a 1991 Mayfair 998 with a 59D dizzy. I had to cut off the little rod on the baseplate to fit the module etc.

You mention having to 'tap' the magnetic ring on. I haven’t tried using brute force, merely just pushing it on as hard I can. Perhaps I should try harder? I know I need to fit either the black weird shaped rotor arm or the black magnetic ring and a normal one as that’s how it works I believe.

[SA MINI]

Yours is like mine then you will need That washer & just a standard rotar arm. Instead of removing that pin I just bent mine .

That washer did go on with me just gave it a tap. It needs to be a tight fit so it won't go flying off the spindle while the dizzy is going round 100 mile & hour.
Are you all sorted for the wiring part of it ?

Edited by SA MINI, 22 August 2012 - 11:40 PM.

[lewBlew]

Ok I'll give it a go tomorrow. And yes mine's a ballast standard coil so going to wire the red wire direct up to the top left spare connector of the fuse box, behind the white ignition wire. Negative to the one which goes to the coil as the points did before :) fingers crossed when I turn the key!

[SA MINI]

Youll also need to tape up those standard coil wires up to the loom out the way . & you'll need a 12v non ballast coil aswell.

[lrostoke]

Youll also need to tape up those standard coil wires up to the loom out the way . & you'll need a 12v non ballast coil aswell.

This isn't correct....you can keep the ballast coil and no need to tape any wires up if you keep it.
Keep the coil wiring standard, and wire the red module wire to the fuse box as you plan to. The black wire from the module goes to coil negative.

[lewBlew]

I'm bypassing three live feed on the coil so under the impression I don't need to touch it.

[SA MINI]

Youll also need to tape up those standard coil wires up to the loom out the way . & you'll need a 12v non ballast coil aswell.

This isn't correct....you can keep the ballast coil and no need to tape any wires up if you keep it.
Keep the coil wiring standard, and wire the red module wire to the fuse box as you plan to. The black wire from the module goes to coil negative.

When I was doing this myself I asked on here
When I described I had wired it like this
I was told I needed to remove or tape up the old ballast coil wires then buy a standard 12v coil. Wire up to the fuse box.
Since then Its worked.

I noticed from Simon Bbc people have also bought a standard 12v coil when purchasing this kit

Edited by SA MINI, 23 August 2012 - 10:00 AM.

[lrostoke]

The kits work with ballast and non ballast coils.

It's only the module that needs a 12v supply..

If keeping the ballast coil...you leave the coil wiring standard...and run a 12v supply to the red wire on the module from the white wire on the fuse box...black wire connects to the coil negative....do not connect the red wire to the coil

If using a non ballast coil (replacing a ballast coil) remove all the wires from the existing coil positive and tape them up leave the coil negative wiring standard.. run a new 12v feed from the fuse box white wire to the coil positive.....with this setup you can connect the red module wire to coil positive and black wire to coil negative.

Also unless you had another topic, you actually asked how to remove the ballast system !!! Because you already had a non ballast coil

http://www.theminifo...e-removal-help/

Edited by lrostoke, 23 August 2012 - 10:04 AM.