> I noticed a while back that one of the two wires leading into a little
> finned doohickey on my Spit was broken off. Didn't seem to affect
> anything... I realized while figuring out the ignition timing in
> the Haynes
> book last night that it must be what they call the ignition resistor. Is
> this the same as a ballast resistor?
Yes.
> My car has a Crane ignition system
> with a Mallory Coil, do I even need to replace the resistor?
Hard to say without knowing which Crane and which Mallory.
> Car ran fine
> without the one lead attached, at least until the engine broke!
Then it obviously wasn't connected, was bypassed somewhere. Otherwise it
wouldn't run.
> Not
> related, I hope! ;-)
Assuming you mean broke as in mechanically, no.
Randall
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