Can someone tell me if a 009 Chinese Dizzy can go "DEAD"
what ever i have in it,...it just does not seem to run.
Put a genuine article in and my engine starts.
i think i am in need of a refund. thats my only hope,
other wise my electrics are dead, BUT all the checking seems to be fine.
you name it i have done it.
ANYONE!

there are many different factories pushing out 009 dizzies...

many cannot be timed correctly because of poor quality

the balancing springs are rubbish... even if the rest of it is OK..

A Bosch 009 will slowly go out of tune if its worn out..

but many of the copies are just rubbish...

Yes, a refund should be given...

I know of a VW shop who has a large box of those dissies and will not sell them...

You need to really ask the person selling the dissies what they are like...

Bosch dissies from the USA aircooled.net are pretested on a machine to match your carburetor...
expensive Yes.. but the best...

cheers

LEE

I assume it is one of the 009 electronic distributors, if this is the case the answer is yes they spit the dummy regularly.I could cit the case of a person who drove 350km and the distributor died on Pennant hills road in peak hour-not pretty.Try changing a distributor there.

its not electronic and has not seen 30 minutes on the engine.
its rubbish, no notch for timing either.

The most common problem is that the points close up or have a bit anti corrosion compound on them,it is not unknown for a condenser to fail or a wire break.I am assuming that the points haven't closed up and you have a point gap,if so with the points closed flick the moving point open with the ignition on and see if you have spark.

I had a set of points fail on me the other day
Absolutely no spring tension in them what so ever.
They were about 3hrs old
Took me bloody ages to find it

remember a gentle bit of grease should be added to the shaft lobes for that plastic drive

Your condenser on the dissy hasn't spit the dummy?

I love these guessing games. I bet condenser too.
Test the coil first, power to positive, touch the negative to earth, when you release the connection you should get spark at the coil lead, that's what the points do. Then check the points are clean, opening, closing etc. Disconnect the condenser, check you have continuity to earth with the points closed, and not with them open, use a light or a multimeter. Connect the points to the coil negative, power to the coil positive, open and close the points, spark at the coil lead now? Re-connect the condenser, if there’s no spark now, you’ve found it.
I had a car brought to me with an “intermittent” problem once. Took ages to work out that the tacho was faulty. Disconnected the tacho wire from the negative side of the coil, problem gone. Disconnect the tacho first before you start any of the above, start with a bare system.
Good luck.
Tony

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Originally posted by Super1302 Can someone tell me if a 009 Chinese Dizzy can go "DEAD" what ever i have in it,...it just does not seem to run. Put a genuine article in and my engine starts. i think i am in need of a refund. thats my only hope, other wise my electrics are dead, BUT all the checking seems to be fine. you name it i have done it. ANYONE!

Hi

I'm also guessing that when You replaced the chinese distributor
the other distributor had another condensor on it...

LEE