Hard starting 352
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From: Western PA
Hard starting 352
Still messing with 1966 truck but wife made me park it outside so she could have garage in winter. I will probably post in anothr forum also, but, my tuck has the MALLORY UNILITE dist & sensor from prior owner and he had a cermanic hickie spliced into wiring harness, well I installed new harness and didnt want to cut it so I got a MALLORY INTERNALLY BALLASTED coil because the power to the UNILITE has to be less then 12 volts or something. Now to my question.... The factory "pink" wire is still under the dash and that goes to the internally ballasted coil so am I getting enought juice for spark? (it was too cold to pull a plug and see if I had spark) I dont think it was the gasoline because I used ether and didnt even get a pop. Hiwever remember before I did this the power was still comming thru the "pink" wire and then thru the cermanic hickie. Someone said there is an additional wire from the starter selnid that gives extra power when starting???
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You are double resistored. The resistor in the wireing harness is the right amount of resistance for the setup. The extra resistor has to be hurting you. Take a voltage reading from both sides of the resistor with the key on. You should see almost 12V on the key side and less on the coil side. If you have 9V on the key side you will have very little going to the coil.
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From: in the springs
those unilite dist. are good but they can be finicky if you run more than i think it was 8 volts through them they can fry, the ceramic thing was a voltage resistor that came with the unilight, (helped install a few) and should be between the 12 volt switched power and the coil. other than that id just grab an old Spark plug pop off one wire use a remote starter jump the solenoid and see iff you are getting any spark
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