How To Repair Lucas Magneto

The vertex magneto. Old school ignition that is the distributor, coil and battery all in one. If you don’t mind push starting your car, you don’t need a battery at all. The magneto makes more power the faster the engine turns so they worked great on high compression race engines. You don’t see these much anymore with modern ignition systems that make great power and are much more tune able, but these work fantastic and look so very cool. This shows the mechanical tachometer power take off featur