6 hours.
At this point, I’m out of ideas. I unshipped the right mag and took the rear cover off to inspect the rotor housing and gears. Even though I left a pop rivet in the timing hole and turned the prop, the distributor gear seems fine. I followed the procedure in the repair manual, and timed the distributor gear using the marks on the rotor and the gear itself, then reassembled everything and put it back on the engine. Same result, no joy on right mag. So, bad magneto, right?
Wrong. This is where it gets truly odd. Ron loaned me the new impulse coupled mag he has for his project. I timed it with the pin, put the engine at 25 BTDC and put it on. Timed it with the buzz box, and tried firing it up. Exact same result.
I now have no idea what is going on.
It’ll have to wait two weeks until I get back from training with Mike Seager in Oregon, which is in two days.
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