Any tips preventing a "melted" Duraspark ignition module?
#16
02-04-2013, 05:48 PM
Here are the top three ways to preserve the ignition module:
1) Ensure proper heat sinking between the mounting flange and the fender well, to help spread heat from the case to the rest of the sheetmetal. In other words, make sure it's snug, don't mount it to plastic, etc.
1) Ensure proper heat sinking between the mounting flange and the fender well, to help spread heat from the case to the rest of the sheetmetal. In other words, make sure it's snug, don't mount it to plastic, etc.
In 80-83 trucks, they come from the factory mounted on the plastic wheel cover......? Did they do other things those years to help dissipate the heat?
Yeah, people sometimes add spacers:
#17
02-04-2013, 07:10 PM
Yikes, I didn't know that. I would have thought they would mount it to metal to act like a large heat sink. Maybe it doesn't have that much of an effect after all; there's no other kind of heat spreading that I know of. In the sedans, the wheel skirt is metal.
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