[Spridgets] "Black Box Failure"

[Jim F.]

That is the coil pack for the HEI ignition. GM garbage.
1960 Bugeye

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Hargreaves" <khargreaves2 at gmail.com>
To: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 2:47 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] "Black Box Failure"


>I had an '86 Vette.  I know, a dog year for Vettes.  The thing would not
> start for me.  This would happen about every month or so.
>
> There is a little electronic component residing in the top of the
> distributor, it is a bit "C" shaped.
>
> I figured out that all I had to do was flip it for the last one that went
> out and I would be able to go another month or so.  When it would die 
> again,
> I would flip the old one back in, and go another month.
>
> New ones would go out just as the older units.  So I just kept the two of
> them and kept flipping them.  I guess the cooling down process would allow
> the previous one to work again.  Very strange way to live with a car.
>
> Kirk
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