In researching replacement coils for this motor I came across an article that Peter M. had written about reusing old laminations and new coil windings assy instead of $$ if you can find them, NLA OEM coils. So, I am giving it a go. During the process I discovered that a previous owner had actually done the same thing. The coil windings last mounted on the old laminations had thee wires (one uninsulated) so I am guessing this was done some time ago?? Anyway, I have two questions I need input on. 1) During the process of putting the replacement windings on the old laminations, someone ground/filed down the center leg of one of the laminations. Do you think this will this significantly impact the spark intensity that the mag will be able to generate for that cylinder? (unless the answer is a resounding YES, I could always try it for the practice ;-), and 2) If anyone has ever gone through this before, did you reroute the (new) spark plug wires under the mag plate after assembly or did you keep the original routing and make sharp 180 deg. bends in the leads at the coil terminal spike?

Yes, I managed to break insulators around plug wire spike 🙁 I will fix if the coils work. Also shows my mag plate hack job, but what is under the flywheel stays under the flywheel.

Regards,

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