Re: "Waking Sleeping Beauty"

Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2011/1/3 19:41:26

Hi again group,

This afternoon I made it out to take another look at the electrical system on my '55 Patrician. Aside from the polarity issue, you may recall that the ignition switch had issues like running the starter in every position but "Off".
I figured the next item to explore was the Ballast Resistor or Coil Resistor as it's called in the FSM. According to that book the Delco Coil Resistor on a 1955 Packard Patrician should be between 1.40 to 1.65 Ohms. Mine registered at 0.00 - I even took it off the car and into the house to clean it up and it still came up with 0.00. The Ohm Meter checked out on another "known" item so it wasn't the meter. I was told that the car "died" on the freeway - I wonder how it even got there! This would explain the story I was told that the owners before last could get the engine to fire, but not run I suppose.
Depending on the weather warming up a little here the next quest will be checking the Distributor.