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imracin68j LMR God Offline Do the impossible Posts: 6228	Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir 06/13/09 at 10:02pm Took my boat out and it has a points ignition. Everything was running great then everything just shut down. The coil is blazing hot. Any ideas?
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tmfab1 LMR Rookie Offline kansas its better than california Posts: 41	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #1 - 06/14/09 at 6:44am remove point dist. install hei
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imracin68j LMR God Offline Do the impossible Posts: 6228	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #2 - 06/14/09 at 7:33am It has a ford 351 in it. Will an hei go into it?
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W1CK3D R4C1NG LMR Senior Offline Posts: 492 Bakersfield	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #3 - 06/14/09 at 7:42am i dont know crap about fords... but a friend of mine has a 71 mustang with a 351 in it... it had points in it, but he switched it over to electronic... Its not HEI, but im sure they make those parts to... he got all his parts from year one and summit...
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hobby26b LMR Member Offline Dirt Late Models Rule! Posts: 189	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #4 - 06/14/09 at 10:28am Pertronix electronic conversion kit.They get rid of the pionts and still fit in your stock dist.There only like 80.00 at any napa i think.
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Andrew LMR God Offline 2006 SMS M.S. champion... more of a PB these days Posts: 1359 Camarillo	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #5 - 06/14/09 at 10:37am Use the Ford dura spark box and dist. Very easy to wire and can be found in any junk yard cheap. It came on everything from the mid 80's to '95. It could also just be a bad coil.
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imracin68j LMR God Offline Do the impossible Posts: 6228	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #6 - 06/14/09 at 10:59am You're right, it was just a bad coil.
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Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir
Reply #7 - 06/14/09 at 11:05am

i had a old ford truck that coil would go out every few weeks and when it did it would sometimes burn up the pionts after several coils and sets of pionts i figured out the problem the ballast restor wasnt working properly replaced the ballist resitor never had a pionts or coil problem agian but reccomend the after market ignitor set up had to put one in a 73 pantera with a 351 it worked great

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Andrew LMR God Offline 2006 SMS M.S. champion... more of a PB these days Posts: 1359 Camarillo	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #8 - 06/14/09 at 11:43am That's why I like the Dura Spark system. It's really a maintenance free system.
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smartguy LMR God Offline Popularity breeds contempt Posts: 2288 North Bay	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #9 - 06/14/09 at 8:59pm get a points eliminator kit. converts a points style ign to electronic. put one on my falcon and it runs sweet. fits inside the stock distributor, and i never have to mess with points again
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Reply #10 - 06/14/09 at 9:33pm

this is the kit?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ACCEL-POINTS-ELIMINATOR-KIT-57-74-FORD-V8-2020_W0...

The motor is a ford 351. Are the points distributers all universal for ford? An HEI won't fit on this motor as the rotor won't fit by a longshot. It will hit the intake and a few other things. Would I just run the two wires into this unit. I will asume I bypass the resister.

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jay99j LMR Member Offline lets put the stock back into hobby&street stocks Posts: 142	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #11 - 06/14/09 at 10:02pm that will do the job stay away from the dura spark sysre you gotta run a seprate box and coil and i have had to replace several boxes as like the sytem i replaced in the pantera so go this way youlll be happy no restor as long as your coil is a non resistor type
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hogracer3d LMR God Offline We bust our a$$ to kick yours-!!! Posts: 3933	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #12 - 06/14/09 at 10:12pm DUI makes ford and chrysler distributors with all GM HEI parts. Just drop it in and hook up the hot wire
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imracin68j LMR God Offline Do the impossible Posts: 6228	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #13 - 06/15/09 at 12:10am do I still need a coil? Or does this unit toss everything else out? I just pull the electronics out of the points and put this in and fire it. black wire orange wire direct in?
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hogracer3d LMR God Offline We bust our a$$ to kick yours-!!! Posts: 3933	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #14 - 06/15/09 at 12:39am It is exactly like a GM HEI, just fits a FORD. Right down to the cap, coil, rotor plug and play http://www.performancedistributors.com/forddui.htm
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miniguru27 LMR God Offline Dirt Late Models Rule! Posts: 652	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #15 - 06/15/09 at 9:21pm Hey Billy go to napa and have them order a ignitor ignition for it .you dont change the dist but you get the electronic ignition.just have to remove the points breaker plate and set electronic like the pionts and no dist problems.
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Reply #16 - 06/17/09 at 8:13pm

miniguru27 wrote on 06/15/09 at 9:21pm:

Hey Billy go to napa and have them order a ignitor ignition for it .you dont change the dist but you get the electronic ignition.just have to remove the points breaker plate and set electronic like the pionts and no dist problems.

heres there website: http://www.pertronix.com/prod/ig/ignitor/default.aspx

they wook chery!!!

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Andrew LMR God Offline 2006 SMS M.S. champion... more of a PB these days Posts: 1359 Camarillo	Re: Help with coil getting hot, motor wont fir Reply #17 - 06/19/09 at 5:23pm sounds like a better idea that mine.
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