What's Wrong With This Picture

[Tom Wesenberg]

Can you find something wrong in this picture?

[quickchange]

coil wired back the front???

[BillLee/Chandler, TX]

A strange placement of the switch->distributor cable. Isn't that supposed to be the one that goes through the rubber grommet in the front, not out the side?

[Ed Saniewski]

Gas tank to firewall square nuts should be on top?

[Great Lakes Greg]

Wrong clip holding the conduit to the firewall?

[Barry B./ Ma.]

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Side metal conduit too far inside the cover could short out against the terminal or lugs.(happened to me).

[newshirt]

1. Hole in firewall for heater?
2. No Ford script on terminal cover? (Is this an E28?)
3. Conduit should be black?
4. No blue wire to wipers?

[Mitch//pa]

see i learned something i did'nt know the early cars used conduit going in the side of the junction box. i see cob webs on the coil and a dirty firewall, and a crappy installation on the heater inlet and i would point the wing nuts in the same direction lol

[Richard Redmond]

I agree with Ed Saniewski - the firewall / gas tank nuts should be uppermost. The nuts in the picture look undisturbed for a long time - ? as from factory

RMR

[ctlikon0712]

Looks like the red coil wire is disconected from it's terminal on the coil pole.

[Steve Wastler]

No welting between tank and firewall

[dr.j]

broken red wire at coil

[Banky]

It's dirty.

[Benson]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

Can you find something wrong in this picture?

Technically since the coil is an early slant pole, the red wire should be on the driver's side of the coil.

Didn't the slant coil have the polarity reversed from the later coil?

The wires were changed in November 1929 to register coil current when points were closed and the key was turned on.

The swap on an early car, if desired, should have been done inside the junction box by moving the black wire to the driver's side terminal as I remember.

[Special Coupe Frank]

( Sitting back with bowl of popcorn and some iced-tea ...)

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Tom,
Is that a two color slant pole coil? Brown and Black?

[Richard Wilson]

Composition, lighting, contrast, depth of field...........

[P.S.]

The coil wire on the right is rubbing against the firewall edge.

[Rowdy]

Those look correct to me. I have never seen the nuts on top. However the coil is wired backwards as has already been stated. Rod

[Tom Wesenberg]

Originally Posted by Benson

Technically since the coil is an early slant pole, the red wire should be on the driver's side of the coil.

Didn't the slant coil have the polarity reversed from the later coil?

The wires were changed in November 1929 to register coil current when points were closed and the key was turned on.

The swap on an early car, if desired, should have been done inside the junction box by moving the black wire to the driver's side terminal as I remember.

Exactly correct and Benson wins the booby prize. Sorry I don't have a booby to give you.

I did like Richard Wilson's answer though, as well as some others.

This winter I lifted the hood to remove a wood hood latch block to take a picture for Rusty. Right away I looked at the red wire on the wrong side of my slant pole coil and wondered how that happened. To confirm that the coil was wired backwards I switched my multimeter to the highest DC setting of 1000 volts, then touched the positive lead to a head nut and then touched the negative lead to the top of a spark plug with the engine running. The needle moved downscale instead of upscale, so that confirmed the wrong polarity.

Yesterday I finally switched the red and black wires to the correct sides. The coil output is the same, but when the hot spark plug center is negative, the plug fires easier. If my coil output was low and I floored the car, the plugs might missfire with the wrong coil polarity.

BTW, when Ford switched from the slant pole coil to the straight pole coil, they also switched the sides of the coil primary terminals + and -. However, there were a few slant pole coils made with the new switched polarity, and I have one of them. I may have been testing it when I switched the wires, and then forgot to switch the wires back when I reinstalled my original slant pole coil.