[DeTomaso] Dead In The Water

[Doug Braun]

Curt,

	FWIW, I've had two Pertronix units go bad on me over the last 30 years; one
in my MACH1 and one in my Pantera, but my magnetic pickup driven MSD-6AL in
the Pantera has worked fine for 15 years now.  The moral of the story is,
any electronic ignition can fail.  From a cost standpoint, its hundreds of
dollars less expensive to carry a spare Pertronix than an MSD.  I'm
currently installing both a Pertronix and an MSD-6AL2 in my MACH1.  This
will give me the benefits of the capacitive discharge and multi-spark of the
MSD, with the appearance of a stock distributor, and if it fails, I can
easily reconnect it in the field to a Pertronix only system.  If I also
carry a spare Pertronix, then NOTHING CAN STOP ME (insert evil laugh
BWA-HA-HA here)!!!!

Doug Braun
blue 73L #5505

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
[mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of Curt Hall
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:02 PM
To: artstephens at verizon.net; detomaso at realbig.com; MikeLDrew at aol.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Dead In The Water


MSD should tell you that you need to buy two, because the first one will
CRAP out at the most inopportune time! 
I've been running the Pertronix unit for the last 6/7 years with
NO problems! Knock on wood! Just to be safe I do carry a back up!  Maybe not
as HiPo as MSD but it hasn't crapped out yet.
 
Good Luck
Curt 

--- On Tue, 5/12/09, MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

From: MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Dead In The Water
To: artstephens at verizon.net, detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 8:33 PM

In a message dated 5/12/09 10 35 4, artstephens at verizon.net writes:


> I'm headed out to pull the engine cover in the cab so that I can
access
> the front of the distributor and try to figure out what is wrong. Any
> suggestions?
>

If you have an MSD, that's an indication that your MSD box has a short and
is about to be totally dead.

Been there, done that. :<(

I had similar symptoms in my VW Scirocco years ago; turned out to be an
intermittant short in the distributor.

Mike


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