[DeTomaso] I love MSD...I hate MSD....

[Charles McCall]

Tom is correct, but I think the set price was even more reasonable? I think
I may have paid $75 or so? 

My failure happened shortly after welding on the car. Not by me, but one
more example of a failure after welding. 

I now carry it in the front trunk, and the anti-murphy effect has been very
effective (if I carry one, I won't need it).  

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De: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] En
nombre de Tom Di Iulio
Enviado el: Monday, 16 April, 2007 2:32 PM
Para: MikeLDrew at aol.com
CC: Pantera
Asunto: Re: [DeTomaso] I love MSD...I hate MSD....

Even though it's likely you're going to buy a new msd box, send in the old
one and have it repaired. There's a set price to fix it no matter what the
issue ($125?) and then you can keep that one as a backup. 
Tom Di Iulio
Denver, CO

Hi guys,

So, today was the big Capitol Panteras tech session, at Rick Carlile's shop
in Sacramento.  My Pantera is really coming together, but there are a few
jobs that are nice to have a second set of hands for, so this morning I
fired up and drove up there.

Rick, Jim and Emilia Seiferling and I were the only Panteras in attendance;
a couple of other people drifted in and out during the day.  Jim and I
tackled a number of small jobs on my car (i.e. replacing the nuts securing
the upper rear balljoints, lubricating my rear swaybar bushings, and
cleaning up a rat's nest of wiring in the engine bay by the ignition
components).  Most of the day was actually spent working on Rick's 1969 TVR
race car; he is tearing it all apart to rebuild it one nut and bolt at a
time.

So Jim and I wound up taking all four corners off the car, which wasn't as
easy as it sounds, since most of the fasteners had never been off since it
was built.

After a day well-spent, I jumped back into my Pantera, heading for Chris

Difani's house, where we were going to do a bit of fabrication work on my
car (making a lid for my sunken battery box).  The car started right up, I
drove it two blocks to the freeway, and as I made a left turn, it suddenly
died, then came right back to life.  Hmm, odd.  I went another hundred feet
or so, and just as I was getting onto the onramp, it just quit, and quit for
good.

Damn.

So, on the side of the road, I called PanteraStar, which in this case was
Rick and Jim.  Soon they were with me on the side of the road, testing
equipment and wires going this way and that.  Electricity is my VERY weak
point, and ignition systems are magic as far as I'm concerned, so my duties
were limited to turning the key on and off when told, and also standing
around and looking philosophical.

Alas, it appears the MSD box has turned into an NSD, i.e. No Spark
Discharge. 
 I had never really looked closely at its installation (another club member
installed the whole ignition system for me at a tech day, while I busied
myself in my element, rebuilding my umpteenth steering rack).  Turns out he
had

failed to rubber-mount it, so it's possible that it simply shook itself to
death.  

In any case, there appears to be a new MSD box in my immediate future.  
Fortunately Jim is working a half-day tomorrow, and he has the Big Head on
all this stuff, so I'm going to sic him on it while I go out and polish his
wheels or something. :>)

Here's a photo, with Rick Carlile's Pantera just ahead....

http://members.aol.com/mikeldrew/NSD.jpg

Mike<BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> See what's free
at http://www.aol.com.</HTML>
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