philford
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my grandad had a rambler "classic" it was in beautiful shape and given to my brother who felt it wasnt; very competitive to his frineds muscle cars,, Not so old and rounded as your fine specimen, what a cool car ;-) And you can race people whothut them even knowing ;-)
I keep one of those gray modules and there is sonething weird about the socket. I had to shorten it or maybe I thinned it out a little, so I try to keep my "modified 1/4" socket" along with a new one in case it fries again.
mine failed when parked and then it wouldnt fire up.
I think the thing was the ridges in the indent did not allow for the thick sidewall of the socket and also no normal wrench will fit. Im sure one could do that mod by using a drill to spin the socket, and then file it.
out on the road that might create a bit of a problem so I keep the socket with the spare, likely if its a mod you can just use bolts with taller heads or socket head cap screws instead.
i wired a small LED across my coil and up to near my dash so I can see it blinking when it cranks, this verifies I have a ingiton pulse. I think if that thing fails then you get no pulse at the distributor primary coil. anyway thats a little abnormal but I like to be able to verify at a glance that I have that pulse and its not affecting anythign else. if it got grounded it would kill the ignition so I put heat shrink grommets etc to protect the leads.
it's about the first thing I want to know if it cranks but wont fire.. that and fuel pump. during operation it blinks so fast it appears as a dim glow, thats normal. during cranking I can see blinking activity.
I keep one of those gray modules and there is sonething weird about the socket. I had to shorten it or maybe I thinned it out a little, so I try to keep my "modified 1/4" socket" along with a new one in case it fries again.
mine failed when parked and then it wouldnt fire up.
I think the thing was the ridges in the indent did not allow for the thick sidewall of the socket and also no normal wrench will fit. Im sure one could do that mod by using a drill to spin the socket, and then file it.
out on the road that might create a bit of a problem so I keep the socket with the spare, likely if its a mod you can just use bolts with taller heads or socket head cap screws instead.
i wired a small LED across my coil and up to near my dash so I can see it blinking when it cranks, this verifies I have a ingiton pulse. I think if that thing fails then you get no pulse at the distributor primary coil. anyway thats a little abnormal but I like to be able to verify at a glance that I have that pulse and its not affecting anythign else. if it got grounded it would kill the ignition so I put heat shrink grommets etc to protect the leads.
it's about the first thing I want to know if it cranks but wont fire.. that and fuel pump. during operation it blinks so fast it appears as a dim glow, thats normal. during cranking I can see blinking activity.
