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Thanks again. I live in a yellow house. Out front will be an old silver Lumina and a lite blue Taurus wagon in the driveway. Beer will be cold!
 
Of course you could use a coil that doesn't require a resistor. It would be closer to stock and not as complicated.
 
Gee, sounds like a party. Darn, and I had something planned.
 
Bill, I'm taking both a ballasted coil, with resistor, and a stock coil with me. Probably another distributor, too. One way or another, we'll get this puppy running.
Jeff
 
Anywhere is cooler.
 
Jack, just remember us in about February, while we're freezing our tails off up here.
Actually, I think it's supposed to be in the high 90's here tomorrow.
Jeff
 
Quick (related) question. If it is the coil and heat related, will the symptom just be that it dies just like that? Or will is slowly sputter down?
 
Skip, the usual heat related coil failure mode is a gradual loss of power until it finally dies completely. Then, after a cool down period, you can restart it and drive away until it heats up again.
Catastrophic coil failure, on the other hand, is abrupt, and terminal. As in "The coil just blew up."
Jeff
 
Jeff just left and he is a true friend in deed. After figure out the coil, the car was still not running right. The Mallory dizzy is the culprit. Only one point was firing. He took out the Mallory and loaned me a 45D dizzy till I find one. Thanks Jeff! One of the nice guys!
 
Like a 1500. Went thru the gears like butter. Idles at 1000rpm. Jeff was nice enough to bring a ballasted coil. No more ballast resistor, thank God. Jeff's good company and his knowledge is awesome. We also figured out I was looking at the wrong diagram. The one that works is labeled for a '78 in the Hayes manual. Duh! No wonder why I had a devil of a time figuring out the electrical. Feels good without having to worry about pushing the old girl home. Now onto figuring out why I have no breaklights or hazards.
 
YAYY. SUCCESS!!
 
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