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JM 35 Sedan · 05-19-2011, 05:52 PM

Maybe your points are from an off shore manufacturer and not the good quality USA made parts. Ken CT who posts here sells good USA replacement parts for early Ford V8 distributors. He will also completely rebuild your distributor. You may want to consider sending an original core coil to Skip Haney and let him rewind it for you with modern insulated materials. I believe he can also adjust the wire turns per coil/AWG to give you a hotter spark. As far as eliminating the resistor, what I would suggest is just do this during start up using a momentary contact switch that takes the resistor out of the circuit for start up but brings the resistor back into the circuit after the engine is running. If you eliminate the resistor completely you will be burning points frequently. JMO

05-19-2011, 05:52 PM	#3
JM 35 Sedan Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Near Rising Sun, Maryland Posts: 10,858	Re: Bypass the Resistor? Maybe your points are from an off shore manufacturer and not the good quality USA made parts. Ken CT who posts here sells good USA replacement parts for early Ford V8 distributors. He will also completely rebuild your distributor. You may want to consider sending an original core coil to Skip Haney and let him rewind it for you with modern insulated materials. I believe he can also adjust the wire turns per coil/AWG to give you a hotter spark. As far as eliminating the resistor, what I would suggest is just do this during start up using a momentary contact switch that takes the resistor out of the circuit for start up but brings the resistor back into the circuit after the engine is running. If you eliminate the resistor completely you will be burning points frequently. JMO __________________ *John* *"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts". Albert Einstein* Last edited by JM 35 Sedan; 05-19-2011 at 07:54 PM.