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Old 01-16-2018, 11:06 AM   #15
Purdy Swoft
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Default Re: Original Ignition Coil

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Originally Posted by juke joint johnny View Post
I don't know what the originals put out

But a fellow came round to my house last year in a 29 Canadian Tudor
that he imported a few years ago .

It still had an original Slant Pole Coil on it and it was working fine.

Funny thing is he took it off when I told him "that coil is 86 years old"!!!!
I've had good luck with the old slant pole coils . I've bought rusty , dented slant pole coils at swap meets for as little as five dollars each . After a good clean up all of the old coils have worked , so far. The service bulletins mention carbon tracks that can extend from the tower up to the metal trube of the coil and short out . I think that the carbon tracks is about all that ever goes wrong . The tracks can usually be scraped off with a pocket knife and all will be good again . The original model A coils are tar filled and sometimes called solid coils . The old guys , way back when use to tell me that coils seldom if ever gave problems .
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