[DeTomaso] MSD Symtoms

Donny Williams Donnylee at ccwebster.net
Tue May 29 09:58:17 EDT 2007


Sounds more like the classic dizzy shear pin to me....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles McCall" <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
To: <michael at michaelshortt.com>; <PersoCaddy at aol.com>
Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] MSD Symtoms


> 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)
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> 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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