Re: Coil Placement on a 1936 120

Posted by kevinpackard On 2023/12/18 1:02:45
I had to do the ignition switch surgery on my dad's '38. It was not fun. But Flack speaks the truth about the fragility of the cotton-wrapped wires in the shielded cable. My advice is to go ahead and replace the wire in the cable, and modify the ignition switch to accept the new wire. It's not a fun job. But then again, the alternative is to risk a major short. The wire in our '38 shorted out randomly and just about caught fire. We're just lucky that we caught it in time before it did major damage. It managed to burn the paint off the head by how hot it got.

I ended up replacing the coil too because the car kept cutting out randomly. Removing the old coil from the head mount took some work.

-Kevin

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