Hello to all. Just finished rebuilding the 186 engine with the new VK Electronic ignition. I followed the reapers guide on oldholden in regards to wires and relay positions. The car started perfectly first time, but when I tried to switch the car off, nothing happened, the engine kept going. I have the following wires in these positions on the Relay: Earth-85, Power from battery-30, Old ignition wire-86, New ignition wire-87. There must be a loop somewhere for this to be happening, but I can't see where. I was thinking that maybe 30 should be old ignition and 86 Batt power, but only guessing and need to find out first. The car seems to run ok without relay in place using old Ignition wire and swithed off as usual, but don't have volt meter and can't garrentee 12 volts. Is there anything else it could be besides wire postions?
On the coil + their is the new ignition wire, brown wire from dizzy, and a bypass wire from the starter solenode( appanently used for easiler starting on cold mornings-as told by Auto Elec). I thourght it might have been the bypass wire but, nothing changed when removed. The wiring used for the job might be a bit thin, but this should not effect anything in the short term I would think. Any ideas appreciated.

On another noted, I opened the plugs up to 1.5mm (.060), but the engine still seams to stumble at idle and run a bit rough. I this gap the standard?? On the dizzy itself it has a 6 degrees sticker on the vacume advance, is this an indication for anything???

cheers james

1970 HT UTE

Ok had a play, couldn't resist, I have put old ignition wire on 30, earth on 86, batt power on 85, and new remains on 87. The car managed to shut down with key this time but was sluggish starting up. Could this be due to the thin wires loosing amps or are

Sorry mick, I apologise, you were absolutely correct, I did some investigation and found that I had checked the positions for my original reply using a spare relay, and looking at the wire positions, and lo and behold, the relay on my ignition has the ter

thanks Dave, will have a look

cheers james

1970 HT UTE

Ok I have found a fix, I think. I have relaced the old relay with a 5 pin Narva 40amp relay (resister type, P/No-68028BL). I have Replaced all the wires to the relay with 6mm wire excluding the remaining old ignition wire. Have followed the new relay in

So is there anyway of really knowing what the gap should be without lots of re-gapping attempts??? Mick you said you dropped your gap after upping compression, I'm running 10.1 Comp, was your roughly the same??? maybe find a happy mid-point between the st

Thanks Mick, i'll give it a go tonight.

cheers james

1970 HT UTE

G'day Jim,
I had problems with mine after I put the elect dizzy in (rough idle rough acceleration, etc.)until I just went and bought a set blue motor plugs and just left them with the standard gap they came with(I checked them of course to make sure they

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