Houle #382
Well-Known Member
I installed a Flame thrower three in my 440 last year about this time and never got it running the module inside the distributor was bad and I couldn't set the rev-limiter so I called Pertronix and ended up sending the whole distributor back. 6 weeks later I get it back and no issues the rest of the year. Fast forward to 3 weeks ago, get up Father's day morning to go to one of the areas biggest car shows, get 4.5 miles from the house car dies. Get it towed home and get the test light out no power to the coil but had power to the relay but nothing coming out. Relay **** the bed, order one from Summit couple days later install it car runs great. Get up the following Sunday to go to the largest Mopar show in NY get 2 miles from home car dies again. Get it towed home pull out the test light and there's power to the coil so did the module in the distributor go bad again? Only I wished, pulled the cap and I could spin the rotor, pulled the distributor and the shaft broke and I was only going 40 mph. It broke right at the area where it's suppose to break but why at only 40 mph. Call Pertronix send the whole distributor back and they claim this is the first one they have seen break so they are sending me a whole new distributor as they said it couldn't be fixed NO DUH ! But now I'm gun shy, my old mopar distributor wasn't worth putting back in so I bought a Proform Mopar distributor put it in car starts right up and runs but there's a slight skip and I haven't figured it out yet why as it never did that with the Pertronix Distributor so after waiting 7.5 months for my cam this has been one hell of a year. Just wondering if anyone else has had any issues, they said this is the first on they have seen but I did see on this website another guy did break his shaft also and Pertronix replaced his also, at least they stand behind what they sell.
