1985 help! I broke it!
05-16-2017, 09:06 AM
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New capacitor too!
Now the coil wires flamed up again!
Brought in my brother and one of his buddies who have had Ford trucks since high school and are a wealth of knowledge and we are all scratching our heads. We pondered everything from dropping a straight point distributor in to a duraspark unit to a HEI coil in cap unit.
Had suggestions that the voltage regulator is bad and causing an overvoltage that is frying stuff, but alt checked out.
Traced wires, tested components and all the parts, distributor pip signal, ignition module, coil, capacitor, wiring gets all the right values until all put together. Then is fails to cause any spark at the coil. distributor wire fails to fire the coil and I have used 3 different ignition modules.
Just got a call from my buddy and it is actually his truck so he made the call to haul it to a local shop. 2 weeks and I am just happy for it to be someone elses problem.
Bruce
Last edited by William Bruce Lowry; 05-16-2017 at 09:26 AM.
05-16-2017, 04:00 PM
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