[DeTomaso] MSD Symptoms

[Dave Doddek]

I have only had one Duraspark fail, and it was an old unit from a junkyard
off of a 78 or so something or other.  I have had very good luck with
these.  I have even found a way to use a set of points to fire a duraspark
box.  

Dave "hard to beat oem" D

At 10:17 AM 5/28/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>With the current MSD discussion...
>
>Has anyone had problems with the Ford Duraspark?
>
>I've been running one for more than 10 years now...  I keep one or more
>spares, but have yet
>(Murphy + Drew luck) to need my spare.
>
>Chuck
>
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>Dizzy shear pin?
>
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>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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