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Gasoline · 08-10-2013, 06:05 AM

Thanks, I will do that test tomorrow.

I should also mention that there were a 1.4 ohms coil and a 0.7 ballast resistor when I bought the car. When the car died that time on the highway (4 years after I bought it) I changed to a 0.7 MSD coil and a 0.7 resistor. It worked fine for 3 more years and then it happened many times this summer, during very hot summer days.

So to change to 1.4 ohms coil and skip the external resistor is more or less going back to the original setting and taking it a little bit further. I did not know that coil could have different ohms untill last week. At some point I think there has been a breakerless setting on this car. There is a lot of wires that are not really going anywhere.

08-10-2013, 06:05 AM	#28
Gasoline Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 17	Re: Mallory tech answer to coil/ballast ? Thanks, I will do that test tomorrow. I should also mention that there were a 1.4 ohms coil and a 0.7 ballast resistor when I bought the car. When the car died that time on the highway (4 years after I bought it) I changed to a 0.7 MSD coil and a 0.7 resistor. It worked fine for 3 more years and then it happened many times this summer, during very hot summer days. So to change to 1.4 ohms coil and skip the external resistor is more or less going back to the original setting and taking it a little bit further. I did not know that coil could have different ohms untill last week. At some point I think there has been a breakerless setting on this car. There is a lot of wires that are not really going anywhere.