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Old 07-28-2018, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by snapier View Post
My Superformance (SPO1400) had the same problem after 2 weeks of trouble shooting I found out that I had a faulty magnetic pickup in the MSD distributor and also a failed Control box that is just under the glove box. This was tuff to troubleshoot because both must have failed at the same time. Good luck.
It's pretty rare for two electronic components to fail at the same time without an underlying cause of some sort. Jump starts, misbehaving alternators, flaky voltage regulators, a "fast" battery charge, they can all hasten an MSD demise.
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