Re: IML: Ballast resistor

["Rob P" <fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The ballast resistor is to protect the coil.  Some aftermarket coils don't 
require a resistor.  This is probably the case with your MSD system.

> From: "Klebert L. Hall" <swampyankee@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: IML: Ballast resistor
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:25:04 -0400
>
> >Subject: RE: IML: Ballast Resistor
> >
> >Dick the ballast master and fellow IMPers,
> >Whet to start the 63 after 3 years of sitting. Found 3 bad lifters before
> >and replaced the lifters and push rods. I replaced the points with the
> >electronic (the under the cap version). Car started right up and I was
> >breaking the the lifters and the car sputters, dies , and no start. I had 
> a
> >buddy turn it over and had good spark. BUT, I look over and see the 
> ballast
> >SMOKING!
> >Looked around again and the newly rebuilt carb had a lake of gas on each
> >side.
> >-Charles Major
>
>    When my mechanics put an MSD in my '69, they took the ballast resistor
> out of the circuit... Maybe your system uses a different setup, though.
>
>      -Kle.
>      '69 Crown 4DHT
>
>
>
>
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