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Old 09-01-2001, 05:07 AM
Jack Zupan Jack Zupan is offline
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Just to finish up my MSD story. I got my new box in yesterday and decided to hook it up using my dual point distributor first before I went through all the hassle of last weekend with the new distributor too. After the installation, it was same as before, no spark. I rechecked everything with the voltmeter and found 8V to the switched wire at the ground I had used which was a windshield bolt. It read 12V at other ground points. I extended the ground wire to go to another point and the car started right up. So I had the box set to a poor ground. This was probably true for the first box also, although I'm sure I checked it at the time. It would be too much of a coincidence if that were not the case. So bottom line it was not MSD, it was my installation.
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