Larry, Doug, Mike, Bill,
My Eudora went down this morning and took my morning E-mail with it. It's
rebuilt and I'm back on-line now. Didn't get Mike's longish riddle post. I
would comment that the distributor per se is not what is affected by the
ballast resistor; it's the coil. There are 9V coils and 12V coils. 9'V
coils use the ballast resistor, which is by-passed by the solenoid switch
when the starter is engaged.
Also, Doug's comment and Larry's concurrence about solid ignition wires:
>Would you by any chance be running solid core plug wires?
>
>If so you can NOT run them with a MSD box or any computer ignition...
>The RF noise will kill the box.
>
>Doug
I hadn't heard this and I'm surprised. I assume he doesn't mean the solid
spiral-wound type of wires. In any case, I have run my MSD with straight
and spiral-wound solid (i.e., low resistance) wires without any problem. My
MSD-6A unit must be about twenty years old now and still works fine. I do
agree that taking the MSD out of the loop would facilitate trouble-shooting
- whatever the problem is.
At 04:51 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Larry Paulick wrote:
>Mike, just take the MSD out of the loop, and you can check whether the
>MSD is the problem. Make sure you have a ballast resistor in the
>circuit if called for by the MSD distributor wiring. Mallory
>distributors want a resistor if no MSD. Don't know about MSD
>distributors. Suggestion on solid plug wires also true.
>
>Larry
Bob
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