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Old 12-07-2023, 10:28 PM   #44
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Default Re: 47 V8 ignition mystery

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Originally Posted by 47topless View Post
You could just buy one of those Blue Streak (Flame?) tube coils at NAPA or O'Reilly, depending on your system, with or without built-in resistor, and test that. They are very inexpensive, and you would then have an emergency spare.
I just ordered a $15.00 6 volt coil from Amazon that will be here Monday to try before laying out $80.00 for the real thing. Hope it fixes the problem. That would be a fix easier than anything I've done so far.

The coil I'm using was rebuilt by Skip Haney in 2015, 70,000 miles ago.
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