{"id":310,"date":"2018-01-30T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2018-01-30T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:42:44","slug":"points-suck-simple-electronic-is-best-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/points-suck-simple-electronic-is-best-way-to-go\/310\/steve","title":{"rendered":"Points suck,  Simple electronic is best way to go."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_311\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-311\" src=\"http:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NoWindoCU_226790_233589-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NoWindoCU_226790_233589-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NoWindoCU_226790_233589.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adding electronic ignition is easy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Points are such a pain in the butt. Only once Have I been left by the side of the road while driving a International Scout. \u00a0 The points had closed and it was not going to run. \u00a0It was late at night and I was unable to see if there was a \u00a0gap and so I had to give up. \u00a0I had to tow it home. \u00a0 Points are a pain and replacing them with an electrical pickup is a cheep and easy way to ad reliability, horse power, fuel economy and reduce maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>So easy, \u00a0Just remove the old points and condenser. \u00a0Use the provided screws and screw the new plate in and thread the wires through the hole in the side of distributor.\u00a0Now put the magnetic ring, rotor, distributor cap and just start it up and drive. \u00a0 The Brand we sell is Pertronix is one of the best kits on the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Points are such a pain in the butt. Only once Have I been left by the side of the road while driving a International Scout. \u00a0 The points had closed and it was not going to run. \u00a0It was late &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/points-suck-simple-electronic-is-best-way-to-go\/310\/steve\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scoutparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}