Chinese slant/6 HEI / Ready to Run / sold on ebay Distributor
Sorry photo are a bit crap..nice sunny 63F day until it rained a weeks worth in 5 minutes
1) V8 cap and I6 cap, same size, the red one is just closer and got fish-eyed by my old phone camera.
2) Pickup in place needs to be properly centred, metric allen headed bolts with split/spring lock washers.
3) Rotor and reluctor removed, reluctor sits on a non standard sized circlip/snap ring, with holes so small your snap ring or clirclip pliers are useless, and is held down with a spring washer and a standard size circlip/snap ring, you can see the non standard lower circlip/snap ring in place down the centre of the pickup. not easy to get out, jewelers screwdrivers and a fight.
4) Vacuum can off.
5) it rained, got a rainbow on top of a rainbow! with a rainbow above.....strange weather.. i had to hide with the barbeque till it passed
6) module and wiring. see stud under main pickup ring for the vacuum advance connection. no circlip.
7) pickup coil solid plastic spool with tape
8) module part number and brand (oh.... same as some 4 pin HEI, that come in boxes with the name xxxxxTron) Mobiletron Electronics CO., LTD.
9) advance mechanism plastic foot and plastic bush for weights, metal, pressed weight stop pillars on the periphery.
Seems like a reasonably competent design. although i have no qualification to say so.
I don't see anything obviously bad.
re assembly
1) pickup can go on in two positions one for V8 and one for I6. put it in the wrong place the phasing will be off and you would need to use a different shorter arm vacuum can.
2) pickup needs to be centred, do it now so you can twist advance to check no touching between reluctor and pickup points in all advance positions.
4) asememble pickup, put on the on the non standard circlip in the bottom position place the reluctor star on, then clamp it down with the spring washer and standard circlip. Now position your pickup whilst the vacuum advance is still disconnected. do up screws use screw driver to move pickup to achieve centering. do screws up tight and check.
spend some time getting the eye of the vacuum can linkage back onto the stud do up screws
this isn't easy but is doable, explains perhaps why mine needed attention in the first place, heavy handed install during manufacture perhaps. you could imagine someone getting frustrated. small screw driver and patients helped.
based on what i see, i won't say "don't buy one".
Make your decision knowing that, who you buy it off, and their efforts, will probably dictate how much they care about your custom, and therefore what you need to do for your own peace of mind in respect to it being ok for your motor. The advance curve as standard will at best be incredibly conservative, at worst totally wrong for the state of tune of your engine running modern fuel.
but you take that risk with a swap meet original, you don't know who has been in there even if you match part numbers to your standard engine spec.
if yours comes with a metal drive gear swap it for an original and check the end play
i might even drill a hole for oiling the bottom bush.
The Benefit. for once you would be using a pickup with the correct signal output voltages for the rpm and the correct impedance for the ignition module it is connected to, therefore the dwell control should work properly.
a mopar pickup and 4 pin set-up may not be totally aligned on this front because they only work together by luck rather than design.
The drawbacks? well read everything posted about cheap crap...
and make up yer mind
I've touched on a few of the issues mentioned in the "its all cheap rubbish" namely phasing and metal-metal touching of pickup parts.
but that doesn't mean i've landed on a cure for every instance...
Dave
Sorry photo are a bit crap..nice sunny 63F day until it rained a weeks worth in 5 minutes
1) V8 cap and I6 cap, same size, the red one is just closer and got fish-eyed by my old phone camera.
2) Pickup in place needs to be properly centred, metric allen headed bolts with split/spring lock washers.
3) Rotor and reluctor removed, reluctor sits on a non standard sized circlip/snap ring, with holes so small your snap ring or clirclip pliers are useless, and is held down with a spring washer and a standard size circlip/snap ring, you can see the non standard lower circlip/snap ring in place down the centre of the pickup. not easy to get out, jewelers screwdrivers and a fight.
4) Vacuum can off.
5) it rained, got a rainbow on top of a rainbow! with a rainbow above.....strange weather.. i had to hide with the barbeque till it passed
6) module and wiring. see stud under main pickup ring for the vacuum advance connection. no circlip.
7) pickup coil solid plastic spool with tape
8) module part number and brand (oh.... same as some 4 pin HEI, that come in boxes with the name xxxxxTron) Mobiletron Electronics CO., LTD.
9) advance mechanism plastic foot and plastic bush for weights, metal, pressed weight stop pillars on the periphery.
Seems like a reasonably competent design. although i have no qualification to say so.
I don't see anything obviously bad.
re assembly
1) pickup can go on in two positions one for V8 and one for I6. put it in the wrong place the phasing will be off and you would need to use a different shorter arm vacuum can.
2) pickup needs to be centred, do it now so you can twist advance to check no touching between reluctor and pickup points in all advance positions.
4) asememble pickup, put on the on the non standard circlip in the bottom position place the reluctor star on, then clamp it down with the spring washer and standard circlip. Now position your pickup whilst the vacuum advance is still disconnected. do up screws use screw driver to move pickup to achieve centering. do screws up tight and check.
spend some time getting the eye of the vacuum can linkage back onto the stud do up screws
this isn't easy but is doable, explains perhaps why mine needed attention in the first place, heavy handed install during manufacture perhaps. you could imagine someone getting frustrated. small screw driver and patients helped.
based on what i see, i won't say "don't buy one".
Make your decision knowing that, who you buy it off, and their efforts, will probably dictate how much they care about your custom, and therefore what you need to do for your own peace of mind in respect to it being ok for your motor. The advance curve as standard will at best be incredibly conservative, at worst totally wrong for the state of tune of your engine running modern fuel.
but you take that risk with a swap meet original, you don't know who has been in there even if you match part numbers to your standard engine spec.
if yours comes with a metal drive gear swap it for an original and check the end play
i might even drill a hole for oiling the bottom bush.
The Benefit. for once you would be using a pickup with the correct signal output voltages for the rpm and the correct impedance for the ignition module it is connected to, therefore the dwell control should work properly.
a mopar pickup and 4 pin set-up may not be totally aligned on this front because they only work together by luck rather than design.
The drawbacks? well read everything posted about cheap crap...
and make up yer mind
I've touched on a few of the issues mentioned in the "its all cheap rubbish" namely phasing and metal-metal touching of pickup parts.
but that doesn't mean i've landed on a cure for every instance...
Dave