[DeTomaso] Fw: MSD 6 AL trouble shooting

[Donny Williams]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donny Williams" <donnylee at ccwebster.net>
To: "Herbert Butler" <hjbutler at bellsouth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] MSD 6 AL trouble shooting


> Herbert here is the down and dirty way to test.   Make sure both Red wires 
> have 12 Volts.  Take the un-used white wire that should be coiled up if 
> your using an electronic distributor with the Green and purple wires with 
> the plug should be connected to the Dizzy.
>
> Strip back that white wire and touch it to ground.  It should fire your 
> coil.  You can usually here it!  If it does not you have a confirmed dead 
> 6-AL.   Your choices are to by a new one, or send your old one in to MSD 
> for repair.   Thats the only drawback on the 6A.... When they are dead, 
> there dead....
>
> I have only lost one in the past ten years, but it occasionally it just 
> happens.  Never opened one up myself so I do not know what the common 
> failure is to them when they go DOA.  They have specials rivets holding 
> them together and thats why I have never bothered to look inside one 
> myself.
>
> Donny
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Herbert Butler" <hjbutler at bellsouth.net>
> To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:18 PM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] MSD 6 AL trouble shooting
>
>
>>I have a MSD 6AL installed with no spark. The owners manual says to
>> disconnect distributor pickup and bridge connection. A spark should be 
>> fired
>> from the coil. I have no spark. Changed coil and no spark. Anyone with
>> experience. In addition this 6AL box is wired directly to 12 volts 
>> switched.
>> I noticed that in the manual it says it should be connected to resistor.
>>
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