10-08-2019, 12:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2019, 12:42 PM by Colin Morgan.)
As hopefully anyone using a starting handle has worked out, the handle has to be able to escape from your hand without any fingers or thumb being dragged with it. The kickback occurs very rapidly with no warning - when it did it to me I did not understand what had happened at first.
On a vintage Seven I bought with the magneto replaced with a coil and Ruby distributor driven from the magneto drive, the distributor rotated the wrong way. It would fire and tickover - but, as the mechanical advance was working the wrong way, it would not run properly on the road. If you had asked me which way a Ruby distributor goes, I would have said 'clockwise' - it is useful to know the distinction.
On a vintage Seven I bought with the magneto replaced with a coil and Ruby distributor driven from the magneto drive, the distributor rotated the wrong way. It would fire and tickover - but, as the mechanical advance was working the wrong way, it would not run properly on the road. If you had asked me which way a Ruby distributor goes, I would have said 'clockwise' - it is useful to know the distinction.