Model A Hot Rod Keeps Eating Distributors.. | Episode 103 Tuning Classic Car With

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JALOPY BOYS

11 months ago

love how we listen to the same music doing the same thing haha. I'm 13 years old. i bought a 53 ford customline. turning it into a led sled.

Joe Albert

12 months ago

Saw a lot of "swaptronics" but no actual testing. My guess is you now have a large stock of good coils. You need a voltmeter and/or a scope to find your actual problem.

gtsdesigns

1 year ago

need to swap that setup out and install a msd PN 6014

Ratsnest Hotrods

1 year ago

Great vid Matt! Glad u found the problem

David Waskiewicz

1 year ago

Need to run that ground to the engine, the wire to frame and body will solve a lot of issues.😁

greg work shop

1 year ago

hi there no f....k good .i had one in a car i had and it run like shit.

greg work shop

1 year ago

hi like the green ford

ceedell

1 year ago

Distributor woes, you and me both! Drove our 57 over 900 miles round trip to the Tri Five Nationals last week and broke down for the first time ever, just like turning the key off! First thought was out of gas even though the unreliable gauge showed 1/4 tank and our odometer said we had another 35 miles in the safe zone. Well 5 gallons of gas with help from some locals and 1 hour later still no start! Got gas, got air, must be spark?...yep, had a hole burnt in the rotor pick up contact and burnt cap around the coil button. Another 2 hours later, new cap, rotor and coil and we were on the road. Local car and bike people are the greatest...oh yeah, never put a HEI in a tri-5!! ...no room against the firewall! LOL

ZIGgassedUP

1 year ago

Bugger...I thought NASA were the ones with ground control issues.!

dan westerberg

1 year ago

the bright side of the wiring mess is you didnt have an electrical fire and a carbecue .....

Curtis File

1 year ago

Go hei distributor, like a dui and you’ll have no problems!

Tom Krause

1 year ago

Did the builder of that car ever see a car in person, or even look at pictures of a properly built car? Who angles shocks out at the top? Maybe he was dyslexic, or saw things in reverse? And those frame welds.....yikes.

MrHevyshevy

1 year ago

I’ve killed two or three Pertronix modules and a couple Mallory modules by welding or boosting with battery charger without unhooking module during. I’m convinced that’s the trouble. Did that on the Firebird a few times.

Peter Briel

1 year ago

Check your alternator output , regulator might be spiking voltage burning the distributor .

Kevin Aloisio

1 year ago

Ground the block

cecil6711

1 year ago

I think the shoebox did it because it wanted more drive time. lol :-P
I am glad you got it sorted out. :-)

YUREVN

1 year ago

How bad is the shoe riding just on bags and no shocks? Alot of knee jerk reaction? Better or worse when fully inflated?.

Joe Albert

1 year ago

A voltage drop test would have pointed you to a bad ground right off the bat.

Joe Albert

1 year ago

Swap-tronics isn't really fixing anything. Once you had two different coils on it and didn't fix the problem, you should realize that the problem isn't the coil. You need to do some basic electrical troubleshooting with a voltmeter.

TIG Welding Only TXSVIKING

1 year ago

Matt is pretty sharp.

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