This Hercules IXB-3 engine has a flange-mount, tang-drive, magneto. A Wico XB flange-mount distributor for a four-cylinder engine would fit if I could pick one up somewhere. I am thinking about doing that and converting to battery ignition. Even if I do that though, I still want to eliminate the points.
Note - this mag is very hard to get to. If it was out in the open, it would not be such a big deal. This crawler has a dozer and loader frame on it with a lot of extra steel in the way. It also has a special exhaust manifold that drops the carb down lower then OEM and it nearly sits right against the magneto. It was a replacement exhaust manifold kit that came right from Hercules many years ago. Comes with a Z-shaped adapter for the carb that moves it down lower to let the manifold fit. Why Hercules made the new one so different is beyond me? Only one I have ever seen like it.
This little crawler is a workhorse. Has a Ford Model A aux transmission and engine runs great (when it runs). Without the aux trans, I could not do half the work. Much of the hard pushing is in low-low.
Besides the points getting oxidized, I have had two coils go bad and that makes me think the new parts are not very good quality. One coil was in the Fairbanks Morse mag and the other in the Wico. Might both come from the same place though.
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