Re: Re[2]: The ongoing kudos of the Pertronix Ignition'

["Melissa & Jim" <mgkepner@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

On 28 Oct 97, Toby Erkson wrote:

> just in case the
> electronic ones die (and if they do I want to know as I have never
> talked to someone with an electronic system that failed).

I had a transistor fail in my Mark 10 CDI in about 1970.  If was only 
about 4 years old at the time and I replaced the pair with something 
a bit beefier and it worked until I sold the car about 10 years 
later.  Still, my impression is that the electronic units are very 
reliable.

OTOH, I have never had a rubbing block break off or seen a bad Bosch 
capacitor.

Jim
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       Melissa Kepner                                    Jim Adney
                             Laura Kepner-Adney
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                             Madison, Wisconsin
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