Thanks!  Glad you and Maria enjoyed Weare!I appreciate the insights re online comments...must wear my online "armor".  I heard a guy say some folks want to get taller by cutting off other people's heads....rings true!As for electronic ignition, I have been doing some research and am probably going to pick up a set to play. There is no question that electronic ignition offers finer tuning/fewer tradeoffs.  Easy starts and better advance curves so you get more power.  The programmed duty cycle is higher so folks have better luck replacing vintage coils with the "new" high output coils made by the electronic points manufacturers.  Not a cheap proposition at about $280, but....cool I suppose.I am thinking this is one of those things where there is no "right" answer.  I enjoy navigating with a map and compass when GPS does a fantastic job with zero skill required.  I think I get to be a "better operator" broadly because of skills like these, but maybe I am just a dinosaur!

You are very welcome!  I am pretty sure that this particular Sears model cannot handle 24 volts.  If you start looking on Ebay, you will find several commercial varieties with 24 volt capability.  To my knowledge, 24v was never common except military so you may end up having to find a military version.

I was not aware of the M151 coil overheating problems.  Definitely worth checking.  Turns out the TM 10-1513 has the dwell at 47 degrees for the L134 - later corrected to 42 degrees.  The duty cycle at 42 degrees is 47%.  Running the dwell to 47 degrees would up the duty cycle roughly 10%....which was probably pushing those coils and causing points to burn prematurely because you had to set the point gap significantly under the .020 spec to get that dwell.  Love the well meaning machine shop! Bet that owner was scratching his head a bit!  Turns out that there were two versions of the Champion 6 flywheel (thanks Howard)...and this one is for a car with a driver side starter.  O well!

We will get some better images and I will post them here.  The manual has the orientation correctly.  For some reason, the jeep layout makes more sense and also works better.  This one is a little sloppier but it does work correctly now.

We will be sharing all of the information in this week's episode including measuring on a jeep.  The TM 10 says .020 point gap and 47 degrees dwell...but this was later corrected to 42 degrees.  This works out to a 47% duty cycle for the coil and it appears that the original writer of the TM just got a little confused between dwell and duty cycle.... 

Appreciate the information Howard!  I usually don't worry about it either - you really can't use a timing light on a Weasel or a Jeep for that matter so its really isn't important.  That being said, I wanted to play with the timing light a little and see what I might learn.  I have a couple of beat up Weasel flywheels - will be checking them this weekend to see what, if anything I learn.

Thank you Jay🙏    Makes my/our day when folks enjoy these videos.

I am with you on the excitement for the first drive...can't wait to see how the final drive/control system performs....hoping we get that finger tip steering!

Thanks again, Patrick

Many thanks for the kind words Robert - the feedback helps me figure out what it is folks want to see! 🙏 

Thanks Rob!  Definitely has been hotter than Hades the last few weeks.  We were moving slowly...thankful that we got a little humidity relief yesterday....seems like we are going to be a little cooler these next few days.

Really appreciate you thinking about me Dave!  That looks like a great display!