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flathead 53 · 02-10-2024, 07:57 AM

Does A 1953 f-100 have A resister in the wiring or an internal resister in the coil. thank you

rotorwrench · 02-11-2024, 10:57 AM

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Ford was using the 1.5-OHM primary can type coil in the 8BA era so it requires no ballast resistor on 6-volts. When Ford changed over to 12-volts in 1956, they had to use a ballast to control the current to the coil for reliability. They kept doing this with either a ballast resistor or a resistor wire clear up into the 60s. The other manufacturers did too for the most part.

02-10-2024, 07:57 AM	#1
flathead 53 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: central nj Posts: 717	resister Does A 1953 f-100 have A resister in the wiring or an internal resister in the coil. thank you

02-11-2024, 10:57 AM	#2
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,440	Re: resister Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Ford was using the 1.5-OHM primary can type coil in the 8BA era so it requires no ballast resistor on 6-volts. When Ford changed over to 12-volts in 1956, they had to use a ballast to control the current to the coil for reliability. They kept doing this with either a ballast resistor or a resistor wire clear up into the 60s. The other manufacturers did too for the most part.