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I changed my points system on the distributor to a Pertronix electric ignition on my Farmall H. And now the only way it stays running is if I hold the starter button in all the time. The minute I leave the starter button off it stops. I believe I have it wired correctly as the instructions call for. The instructions say to bring the wire from the ignition switch button to the black wire on the Pertronix sensor and the black & white wire from the Pertronix sensor to the negative side of the coil and the positive side of the coil to ground. This is a positive ground 6v system. Can anyone give me help? Thanks, Glenn
 
I don't know any thing about the Petronix, but it acts like the wires to the starter button are reversed, change them. Happened to me once.
 
I had checked that. The cable that goes to the starter has no other wires connected to it. The cable that goes from the battery to the starter switch has the wire that goes to the ignition button and I do have voltage to the distributor whenever I have the ignition button on. But another question I have is does the distributor have to have a ground wire to it? Thanks, Glenn
 
I think you have an easy fix.
The Ignition switch button (if stock switch) is a nickel sized mushroom headed push pull switch. This is inside the electrical box, or on the light bar. it has small 12 gauge wires attached. One to the ignition unit you installed (black wire), and one to the hot (negative) side of the starter switch. (if the starter switch is on the starter, it will be the only terminal there. If it is a push button starter switch it could be on the light bar, or in front of the light bar with a rod pushing it.
In all cases the wire from the battery neg to this big switch is the place to hook up the wire to the mushroom shaped ign sw. JimN
 
I think you have some wires reversed. You should have a wire from your ignition switch to your distributor that feeds voltage to the distributor
when the ignition switch is in the on position.

Somehow you're feeding battery voltage to your starter and to the distributor. Before you changed this your starter would just crank the engine and you could not start the engine unless your ignition switch was in the on position. Is a solenoid used with this starter? Hal
 
No solenoid used with this starter. The starter has a high amp switch. The distributor does not have voltage when I turn off the ignition switch.
 
If it is not fixed, let us know. The ignition switch is push pull, the starter button is hand push high current. If your wire to the ignition push pull is on the wrong terminal of the high current starter switch, it will act like you describe. Jim
 
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