Ignition problems?
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Ignition problems?
Hey guys, I just finished restoring my truck a few weeks ago, and I started to take it to a car show. It was running perfect until it started backfiring and sputtering until it died. When I got out and looked under the good I noticed the coil was extremely hot, too hot to even touch. So I wet a rag and put over it to cool it off, and it started right back up, so I immediately started to head back home. But it died every 3 or 4 minutes once I got it started back up. With extremity bad backfire. Any help would be appreciated. As far as voltage goes. I've got 3 volts on my coil, and it goes down the more RPM's I achieve.
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Could also be the magnetic pickup inside the distributor. Easier to replace the whole distributor in my opinion. Just be comfortable with re-stabbing it and resetting the timing. Covered many times on these boards.
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