-> -> Hmmm.  Two mags on the engine?  Thought that was the norm.  But he
-> -> I'm very far away from an A&P ticket.
->
-> Strangely enough somebody at Continental decided the redundant mags
-> could SHARE the drive!  (Now THAT's about dumb!)  So, they're not
-> totally islolated mechanically.  I think they started that on the
-> Cessna 337 engines.  Me, I, Personally, wish they'd drop ALL the
-> mags in the nearest blast furnace and let us have HEI electronic
-> ignitions on aircraft engines.  This magneto business is rediculous.
It seems to be a throwback.  The bureaucracy in changing things like
that must be ridiculous though.  It probably needs some big company
to put it's weight behind the effort.  Wonder if your El Paso
neighbor, MSD, would be interested.  I'd imagine the aircraft market
exceeds the hot rod market by  a fair amount.  Probably a good test
would be to replace one of the mags with the electronic.  That'd
show the comparative reliability quickly.  Another advantage of the
electronic is that you wouldn't necessarily be limited to two
systems.  Anything on the low tension side could be switch-swapped
quite readily.  That'd leave the coils, but it shouldn't be a
problem.  Especially if they use the multiple-coil "distributorless"
method.
-> -> I bet the failure did nothing to help his laundry the next day
-> .
-> ROTRWLMAO!  That's better than making him sick and throwing up all ov
-> the back seat!
Er, yeah.  (gotta stop answering my mail right after eating.....)
-c-
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