Lynn..... ...I flunked mindreading, just ask my ex-wife..... ....I've never had a frontmount Petronix conversion in my hands but here goes..... ... I've seen pictures and except for the "braggin' rights" I wouldn't waste my time and money converting to any electronic ignition for the frontmount distributor, and I'm an retired electronics engineer and experienced tinkerer and have built and installed numerious WORKING electronic ignitions. You don't say, but NONE of the frontmount Petronix conversions work well on 6 volts; and your phrase "running it without any resistor" implies this is installation is still a 6 volt battery system. Yes or no? You say you can adjust the timing and it makes no difference. Iff'n yer talking about the sliding side-of-body timing screw, it may NOT effect the way the Petronix sensor relates to the magductor mounted on the former points cam and therefore WON'T adjust the timing. Hard telling, your there, I'm here. As far as I know, the BASIC frontmount timing is STILL 1/4" as set on your kitchen table by measureing the tang-offset gap with relation to the small mounting hole. Make certain you use the wide side of the tang shaft to line up to the small mounting hole. There is NO RELATIONSHIP between oilpressure and ignition EXCEPT an engine that doesn't run has NO OIL pressure. You say your engine runs and has no oilpressure. Better find out why. Disconnect any oilpressure line at the block outlet "T" and start the engine (iff'n you can) iff'n it don't start to pee all overyou, turner off. Iff'n it does pee, then you probably have a bad oilpressure gauge, $10 cheap. Iff'n it don't pee, you might have lost your oilpump prime, but I'd bet on the oilgauge first..... ....Dell
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