11-12-16 lunch run to Payson.

[Car Nut]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

I'm not sure I'm going on the Bisbee run.

My car left my daughter and me stranded at the taco shop near my house this past Saturday night after a 40 mile drive (normal crank and fuel, but no spark), and I ended up having to call Hagerty for a tow home. On Sunday morning, after sitting overnight, it fired right back up.

My ohmmeter says the coil is suspicious, and my #3 plug wire gave me some weird, inconsistent resistance readings too... So I'm going to swap the coil and plug wires and cross my fingers.

But part of me still harbors a nagging suspicion that the controller in my MSD 8352 distributor might also have been a factor (I've got a post out on the MSD troubleshooting forum- we'll see what they have to say.)

So, if I do get it back up and running again this week, a half day turnaround trip to Payson might be a better idea to shake it out, instead of a 500+ mile, full weekend trip.


We'll see...

I had this distributor go bad on me. I don't think all of that heat is a happy place for the electronics inside. I ended up converting it to a separate controller and putting just a pick up in the distributor. Just a thought.

[moore_rb]

You're not the only one, Bruce- I found many online posts, in several different forums about guys having issues with this distributor...

It might be going onto the scrap pile.