so I noticed the car starting to run rough at idle the last few days. Then it would sort of resolve itself and run good for awhile.
When it would run rough, the tach would dance all over the place. And it was beginning to start hard; it needed to turn over longer before it would fire up.
Tonight, the car was idling in the driveway and it just quit.
Weird, I thought. So I got it going again and drove it back into the garage and there it died again. Now it wont start at all....like it is out of gas (but I know it is not) or has no spark. If I let it sit for awhile, then try again, it acts like it wants to fire up at first, then goes back to doing nothing but running down my battery from cranking and cranking.
I have an Accel Super Coil (part #140001) and an Accel "Street Billet" 52000 Series Magnetic Breakerless Distributor.
I downloaded the Accel Coil instructions this evening, and I see that this coil is sold with a part known as the "150001 Super Coil Resistor". This part is nowhere to be found...
This resistor is supposed to be wired in between the original ignition lead wire (that was on previous coil) and the + terminal of the new Accel coil.
Could NOT having this resistor wired in-line have wrecked my coil? I can also hear the oil sloshing around inside the coil. The coil was mounted on it's side, not "standing up".
My wiring diagrams for the 58-60's show that originally, there was a resistor in-line to the + terminal of the coil. Where is this device located? (The Accel instructions note that an ADDITIONAL 1.35 ohm resistor is needed if the car's wiring harness has no factory resistor.)
Any ideas here would be great....
the motor was newly-rebuilt when I got it from the seller, and has hardly one tank of gas run through it yet.
(engine is a 460 from a '73 Mercury)
When it would run rough, the tach would dance all over the place. And it was beginning to start hard; it needed to turn over longer before it would fire up.
Tonight, the car was idling in the driveway and it just quit.
Weird, I thought. So I got it going again and drove it back into the garage and there it died again. Now it wont start at all....like it is out of gas (but I know it is not) or has no spark. If I let it sit for awhile, then try again, it acts like it wants to fire up at first, then goes back to doing nothing but running down my battery from cranking and cranking.
I have an Accel Super Coil (part #140001) and an Accel "Street Billet" 52000 Series Magnetic Breakerless Distributor.
I downloaded the Accel Coil instructions this evening, and I see that this coil is sold with a part known as the "150001 Super Coil Resistor". This part is nowhere to be found...
This resistor is supposed to be wired in between the original ignition lead wire (that was on previous coil) and the + terminal of the new Accel coil.
Could NOT having this resistor wired in-line have wrecked my coil? I can also hear the oil sloshing around inside the coil. The coil was mounted on it's side, not "standing up".
My wiring diagrams for the 58-60's show that originally, there was a resistor in-line to the + terminal of the coil. Where is this device located? (The Accel instructions note that an ADDITIONAL 1.35 ohm resistor is needed if the car's wiring harness has no factory resistor.)
Any ideas here would be great....
the motor was newly-rebuilt when I got it from the seller, and has hardly one tank of gas run through it yet.
(engine is a 460 from a '73 Mercury)
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