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bing
New member
Username: bing
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 02:24 pm: | 
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I have a 6 cylinder Hercules engine with a Mallory distributor, dual points (YB 259AX). I am not sure if this is the stock distributor or not but it works usually. I have noticed that there is wobble in the shaft. Does anyone rebuild these or have a kit for them? Also I was thinking to converting this engine to 12 volt. Would I be smart to go with electronic ignition? |
scott_n
Senior Member
Username: scott_n
Post Number: 85
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 07:41 am: |
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Bing Mallory was most often a after market item sold as hop up parts and parts should be available and would handle 12 volts it is all the rest of the parts starter generator coil lights. I still run my old Chris craft on 6 volts but have a 12 volt bilge pump I keep charged with a ship to shore charger.Hear at Mystic Seaport we have a building maned after the Mallory's |
miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 363
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 11:29 am: |
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Bing,
My experience has been that conversions to 12V systems are things that eventually people regret trying to do. They eventually discover things like generators, switches, resistors etc all need to be changed out or modified.
In most cases, folks want a better starting kick.
I have used a system where you can get 12V for the starter, but the rest of the system is 6V.It uses two 6V batterie4s.
The downside of the system, is that only one of the 6V batteries gets charged. The second is charged by an on-shore battery charger once or twice per season.
The upside is that it is easy to do, plus your boat remains as built.
If you do a search on 6V to 12V conversions, you'll see a number of discussions on the subject.
miro |
bing
New member
Username: bing
Post Number: 3
Registered: 01-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 12:46 pm: |
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The 2 - 6 volt battery system seems the way to go. Now how do you put 12 volts to the bilge pump and starter and 6 volts to the rest of the system? Can I use electronic ignition with the 6 volt system?
Bing |
miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 364
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 10:55 am: |
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The answer is yes you can all of things that you asked to do.
I will resurrect the note that I did on that subject.
miro |
miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 365
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 11:05 am: |
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Here is hte link to the note.
http://www.oldmarineengine.com/discus/messages/3457/5182.html
I recommend that your draw the connections out to make sure that you understand the configurationon your engine and boat.
With the bilge pump connected to the 12 V just remember that you will be draining the second 6V battery which is not being charged by the generator.
A better bet and the one that I use is to find a 6V bilge pump ( and to reduce the leakage into the boat). That way, your generator will charge the battery used for all of your systems ( except the starter)
miro |
