Also, if you melted to coil, you cooked the points too!
Mike Boteler
'56 4400 Brush Fire Truck NAPCO
'56 8400 Wrecker w/Holmes 525
'56 9200 Tractor w/Allison Automatic
'57 10500 Fire Truck
Hughesville, MD
http://www.chevytrucks.org/mikesgarage/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Baggese" <passnb4u@earthlink.net>
To: "Jonas Thaler" <jonasthaler@jonasthaler.com>; "Old-Chevy-Truck"
<old-chevy-truck@egroups.com>; "oletrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 4:57 PM
Subject: RE: [oletrucks] 59 3200 ignition question
> You still need to protect the points from full 12V, put a ballast resistor
> in.
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Jonas Thaler <jonasthaler@jonasthaler.com>
>> To: Old-Chevy-Truck <old-chevy-truck@egroups.com>; Oletrucks
> <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>> Date: 7/17/2006 1:19:05 PM
>> Subject: [oletrucks] 59 3200 ignition question
>>
>> Greetings...
>>
>> I have a 59 3200 pickup with a 235, three on the tree, a completely
>> stock pre-loved farm truck. It is about as original as it can be,
>> but I don't know exactly what happened when the previous owner had
>> the engine rebuilt.
>>
>> I left the ignition turned on and boiled the coil this weekend trying
>> to make various engine adjustments (about which I will whine in a
>> future posting!) In replacing the coil, I learned that from 60 on
>> these trucks were equipped with a resistance wire in the instrument
>> panel harness rather than an in-line resistor. But I cannot find a
>> resistor anywhere in my engine compartment, nor any obvious place
>> where one used to be mounted. (I am familiar with the little white
>> ceramic units from other vehicles.) So I bought a high-performance
>> coil which is supposed not to need the external resistor.
>>
>> Do the auto electric whizzes out there concur that I did the right
>> thing?
>>
>> Thanks. And thanks for all the fun reading; other people's truck
>> adventures is my favorite escape from work.
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