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Originally Posted by dansluck
Mine failed on a rural road in Nevada, 50 miles from nearest house. I let it cool turned it over and drove home. Bought a new coil and have been carrying it around in the car for 2 years but the old one is still working. Old coils are oil cooled and sometimes short-out when pointing down. Good luck
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Modern replacements are oil or epoxy type material filled. The oil types often can be shaken to hear sloshing , and the windings may not get completely covered. . Supposedly Ford developed a molten asphalt based insulating fluid called Hydrolene that would solidify into a paste that was used in some later Model T coils and could have been continued on in later years' coils. Some owners like to install the modern oil types with the terminals up for better coverage.
Same experience as in post 14.