spdcrazy Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 Im about to grab the dizzy and such outta a salvage yard 78 620. I read that it will have the remote box, not the matchbox dizzy. where might i find this box? or where should i tell the guys to find it? All i have been able to find with search is "possibly inside the cab". Id rather a matchbox, but datsun's are hard to find here in colorado. Quote Link to comment
dr.feltersnatch Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 If I remember right passenger kickpanel Quote Link to comment
Laecaon Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 Matchbox will have a black box on the side of the Dizzy. Box is about the size of, well a matchbox. Remote ignitor will have the box passenger side, high up on the kick panel, maybe even next to the glove box in the dash... to confirm, 2 of the wire colors to it (I think of 6...) are Green, and Red. It is quite a bit bigger, pretty hard to miss really. You can also just skip getting the box, and just wire in a GM HEI module in place, which I personally think is a simpler solution. Some will also say the Remote ignitor dizzy is better than the matchbox as the bearings are less prone to giving up and producing shaft wobble. 1 Quote Link to comment
Dolomite Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 GM HEI module for the win, cheap, reliable, and plentiful. I'm running this setup in my 510 and my '79 yota pick up. 1 Quote Link to comment
spdcrazy Posted February 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'm sure thee is more to it, but I take it one splices an HEI module in place of te igniter box? I'll learn up on it. But either way my dizzy has bad shaft play. So the 620 one might be the way to go. Depending on what the yard wants for it Quote Link to comment
bananahamuck Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'm sure thee is more to it, but I take it one splices an HEI module in place of te igniter box? I'll learn up on it. But either way my dizzy has bad shaft play. So the 620 one might be the way to go. Depending on what the yard wants for it Not my picture,, in the "how to" section,, very simple wiring http://community.ratsun.net/topic/17444-electronic-ignitions-for-l-motors-4-cyl/ http://community.ratsun.net/topic/17444-electronic-ignitions-for-l-motors-4-cyl/ . Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 I don't think shaft play is that upsetting to an EI dizzy compared to one running a set of points. It's only spinning a magnet past a reluctor with an air gap. Sloppy shaft would change the dwell (the time the points are closed) and could bounce the points. Quote Link to comment
Laecaon Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Mike, go ask jayden about that... His motor was stumbling from about 2-3.5k rpm. Turned out the matchbox bushings were worn, new ones made it run perfectly. Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 I'm sure it did but I'm saying a points one would have been worse. Did he replace a bushing or just replace the dizzy? I can't find anything close to a bushing but some thrust washers? and it appears the shaft just rides in the distributor casting. Quote Link to comment
Laecaon Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Bushing. Used a universal one that fit rather nicely. He was kinda in the middle of the bakken oil field, so getting another dizzy would have taken some time... Quote Link to comment
Draker Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Probe him for part numbers. People are probably tossing these because of a $.10 bushing. Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Yes a number. My diagrams and parts don't show a bushing but it may be called something else. Quote Link to comment
spdcrazy Posted March 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 my points dizzy with the bushings out allowed the engine to still run, but wow. its not easy to keep it moving under a load.. revved at idle pretty well though.. i thought about just trying to replace the bushings but i want to go electric anyways. Quote Link to comment
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