Howdy,
Some of you may remember I had a stall problem in my 82 after it warmed
up a few minutes.  Well today I had a chance to examine.  I tried a cold
start to see if I could get it running and it would not even fire.  I
thought, Fuel, spark, compression, timing.

I figured it was getting fuel since it started previously.  I opted to
check spark first.  I opened the distributor cap for a quick inspection
and voila, the reak of melted electrical components and plastic.  My
Petronix pointless ignition is TOAST.

This is not good.  Has anyone ever had a set of Petronix burn up.  Mine
are fried plastic and melted wires.  It Stinks.

The only thing I can think of that is different is I installed a new
coil a month back. I've only run it a few times since then.  The
replacement coil was not an exact duplicate of the original.  It is a
black one from BusDepot.  Are these different from the blue coils like
my old one?

I am not sure of it is the Petronix unit, the new coil, or something
else. Any ideas what went awry.  Man that reaks.  I can still smell that
crisp electric plastic odor.

Ken Wyatt
82 fried going back to Points I guess.
PS, Hiked up and skied at Alta today, AWESOME Snow. They got 40 inches
this week.