[DeTomaso] MSD Symtoms

[Charles McCall]

My failure was as Michaels... It just stopped giving me spark. It didn't run
badly, it just didn't run. 

I, too, rebuilt the box for roughly $75, although I thought it was even
less, and carry the spare in my front trunk as an anti-Murphy device. 

It's worked so far. (Oh, and mine did fail shortly after welding on the car)


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De: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] En
nombre de Michael Shortt
Enviado el: Monday, 28 May, 2007 5:22 PM
Para: PersoCaddy at aol.com
CC: detomaso at realbig.com
Asunto: Re: [DeTomaso] MSD Symtoms

I was going to a Car Show/Rally two weeks ago on Hilton Head Island and one
of my friends with a blown 502 crate motor hot rod had the same thing
happen, no backfire, just stopped in the middle of I-95. It was flat bedded
back home and sure enough the MSD box had died.
Turns out MSD will reburish the old one for about $75.00 plus shipping, so
he did that instead of buying anew one, it was back in 8 days as good as
new.

Michael in Savannah.


On 5/28/07, PersoCaddy at aol.com <PersoCaddy at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, So I am driving in 5th at  65 mph and 3,000 rpms or  so on my way 
> to Pocono  and the car backfires thru the carb and the tach  needle is 
> flapping  up and down, no bucking from the car. I pull over to  the 
> side of the road and get flat bedded back home, luckily only 25 miles 
> out.  Put the car back in the garage and took the Benz to Pocono. This 
> is almost  certainly the classic symptoms of bad electrics. The MSD is 
> a 6A about 15 years  old, no wielding down on car to be a possible 
> cause. I have a brand new 6Al with  the rev limit chip that  I have 
> had for 2 years which I will now put in of  course. So is this the way 
> an MSD fails when it goes ? Regards to all Pat  Orlando 1972 Yellow 
> Pantera S/N 4011.
>
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