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Old 05-06-2020, 11:58 AM   #19
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Default Re: Help Me -before I go mad

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Originally Posted by Old Redneck View Post
The Coil Wire can drive you crazy. Do change it and test drive I seen that before. You want a solid wire not carbon wire.
I had something like this happen as well. My very original '51 came with this black bakelite cylindrical doohickey in the coil wire. I think it was a suppressor of some kind. I started having intermittent problems, so I pulled the coil wire and replaced it with a chunk of Packard 440, which solved the problem. (The doohickey had a Ford part number on it.)

Not that this has any bearing n the O/P's problem, since the '34's had an integral coil, but I thought I'd mention it anyway, on the chance that he has installed an adapter and remote coil.
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