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Mail From: lrobaldo (Lance)

Strange thing happened yesterday. My 66 200cid mustang stopped DEAD in the
middle of the road.

It didn't take me very long at all to find that the wire from the ignition
coil to the distributor was totally broken. The contacts at the distributor
cap had corroded to the point that the metal just disintegrated and pulled
apart.

Since I was only 1/2 mile from Advance Auto parts. I went and picked up a
new wire set and replaced the ignition wire.

I STILL can't get the car to start, and I have very little spark.

Could the wire breaking have caused something else in the ignition circuit
to go bad? The points are fairly new look good. Could I have somehow fried
the coil?

Any ideas?

Thanks
Lance
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Mail From: flashford ((email redacted))

Replace the points first thing,trust me this may not be the problem but
start here.

M.

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From: Lance
To: "'A list for owners of Classic Mustangs'"
Subject: [CM] ignition...
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:24:21 -0400

Strange thing happened yesterday. My 66 200cid mustang stopped DEAD in
the middle of the road. It didn't take me very long at all to find that
the wire from the ignition coil to the distributor was totally broken.
The contacts at the distributor cap had corroded to the point that the
metal just disintegrated and pulled apart. Since I was only 1/2 mile from
Advance Auto parts. I went and picked up a new wire set and replaced the
ignition wire. I STILL can't get the car to start, and I have very little
spark. Could the wire breaking have caused something else in the ignition
circuit to go bad? The points are fairly new look good. Could I have
somehow fried the coil? Any ideas? ThanksLance
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Mail From: lrobaldo (Lance)

Thanks for the reply. I just got back in from working on it. I replaced
pretty much the entire ignition system. points, rotor, condenser, coil &
the plug wires.
everything works fine now.

It turns out that it was the condenser. As soon as I unscrewed it, from the
points, the wire just fell out. It had apparently burned through.

I'm probably ordering a petronix igniter for it soon so I don't have to
worry about points anymore...

Lance.


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Replace the points first thing,trust me this may not be the problem but
start here.



M.



----- Original Message -----
From: Lance
To: "'A list for owners of Classic Mustangs'"
Subject: [CM] ignition...
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:24:21 -0400


Strange thing happened yesterday. My 66 200cid mustang stopped DEAD in the
middle of the road.

It didn't take me very long at all to find that the wire from the ignition
coil to the distributor was totally broken. The contacts at the distributor
cap had corroded to the point that the metal just disintegrated and pulled
apart.

Since I was only 1/2 mile from Advance Auto parts. I went and picked up a
new wire set and replaced the ignition wire.

I STILL can't get the car to start, and I have very little spark.

Could the wire breaking have caused something else in the ignition circuit
to go bad? The points are fairly new look good. Could I have somehow fried
the coil?

Any ideas?

Thanks
Lance

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