BSCC- Rick's Engine Saga Update

[Jerry Sachs]

Hi Rick,

There is a resistance wire ( instead of ballast resistor)  that goes to 
the plus side of the coil that limits voltage.   When the wire gets 
old, the resistance changes, and when the wire gets hot, and the engine 
compartment gets hotter the resistance increases, thus decreasing 
voltage to the coil, and secondary spark output.  In addtion, sometimes 
the wrong coil is also chosen to match the resistor wire.

I have seen this problem cause your symptoms about 6 times.  You can 
troubleshoot the resistor wire by taking off the lead to the plus side 
of the coil when the car starts to skip and run a clip/ jumper lead 
from the plus side of the BAT. to the  plus side of the coil. If the 
coil is good, this should solve it.  Just don;t drive along for too 
long since the coil I do not know what you have for a coil.

Note--if you are using a Bosch Blue coil you should NOT be using the 
standard/ stock resistor wire anyway since the coil is engineered to be 
used without it.  This coil by they way offers the Hotest spark of all 
point type coils.

Good luck,

Jerry


On Aug 8, 2006, at 10:35 AM, rick macdonald wrote:

> Thanks for all the tips everybody...It's a little premature at this 
> point to call it "fixed"..but I'm sure the valve adjustment will help.
>  
> Wes, they are new plugs gapped at .035, and they are a little black 
> (dry-black, like fuel...not wet-black from oil) but darn it I only 
> think to look into the plugs when the thing is red-hot.
>  
> I'll inspect them tonite!
>  
> I DO have have to shift focus into getting the body ready to 
> paint...andbody want to have a masking/priming/wet-sanding tech day?
>  
>  
> -Rick
>
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