[DeTomaso] ignition problem

[boyd casey]

I had another coil, a big old funky orange rectangular kind of cube shaped
coil that the piece of shit mechanic who told me I first had a bad MSD 6al ,
the a bad coil, then a bad distributor. As I have said on previous posts the
only thing bad was the mechanic. Anyway I put back the first coil that came
with the car last year. The positive and negative terminals are around 3
inches apart and they are both separated from the spark wire by a good inch
and 1/4 and a small raised barrier. I put it in and she started right up.
The piece of shit Blaster coil said it all when I turned it upside down "
MADE IN CHINA". When I pulled my plugs today they were completely covered
with carbon soot. I had enough soot on the plugs to do an Al
Jolson imitation I felt like singing Mami and calling the tow truck!. So It
looks like I am running way to rich at the very least. They were autolite
#26 and they were gapped at .0035. I put in the motorcraft plugs I bought
last week and started them gapped at around .0046 I am using one of those
.50 cent piece type gauges and I don't like it as much as the wire type
gauge . It seems very imprecise. Any way after working for two hours in the
dark and with it starting to drizzel after the first hour, I was glad to
finally get it started and back in the garage. All this happened around 200
yards from my front door. Luckily I have a spare MSD , three coils, and an
inverter to power my drop light that  I plugged into my other vehicle's
cigarette lighter  so I could see what the hell I was doing. ( even if I
didn't know what I was doing at least I could see it!)Boyd
Speaking of Al Jolson and Mami , by the time this car stops breaking down I
will have walked a million miles ( that's in the song)

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com> wrote:

> Pull the cap and inspect the inside, and the rotor.  There should be a
> small carbon -button- in the center, which would sit against the tang on
> the rotor.  If that is gone, the spark is simply trying to find another
> route.  If the rotor is toast, same story.
>
> It may be the arcing did in the MSD box.  Once an arc path is
> established, it's pretty much there, as it creates a carbon path between
> the two points.  Changing the coil was a good idea, but now you need to
> inspect the rest of the components and swap the MSD box for your spare
> to test.
>
> Asa Jay
>
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
>
> & Shelley Marie
> Spokane, WA
>
> 1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
> 1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
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>
> boyd casey wrote:
> > I just changed my spark plugs and I was driving down my block when I
> stopped
> > to check something. I noticed my coil was arcing from the center wire
> that
> > goes to the distributor to the negative terminal of  the coil. I turned
> the
> > car off and checked the wires to see if they were loose and checked the
> wire
> > going to the distributor and it wasalso tight. I restatred and it was
> still
> > arcing. Then it stalled and it would not start. I put in a spare coil and
> > according to the spark indicator I am getting spark byt the car will not
> run
> > ( it dosen,t fire or pop or anything. Could the coil have toasted my MSD?
> Or
> > any other suggestions.Boyd
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