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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 02:20 PM
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ok,i have all the wireing and wut ever almost done on my ignition from an 83 150,i have no clue wut wire to hook the red wire from the modual up to , and another theng is for some reason there seems to be no spark goin past the coil as far as i can tell,plaes help me
 
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 04:35 PM
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This is a diagram of the wiring for a duraspark module....It may help
 
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 10:42 PM
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but wut wire is the run wire?
 
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Old Mar 21, 2006 | 01:57 AM
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Looks like the Red one. Don't really see where the White wire connects.
 
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Old Mar 21, 2006 | 08:43 AM
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the white wire is hot from the battery....your red one goes to the ballast resistor which is your switched hot, green goes the Neg side of the coil....
 
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Old Mar 21, 2006 | 10:46 AM
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I must respectfully disagree with 1972FordCustom on a few details.
The drawing is not clear, due to the "Visit Ford-trucks.com" logo.
White: This is hot during the Start circuit. It retards the timing to allow for easier starting - or so I have read. I hooked this one up to the small Start post on the starter solenoid. (On the backside, on the side where the juice goes to the starter. NOT the wire from the ignition switch which is on the battery side of the solenoid.)
Red: Hot during the Run circuit. It by-passes the resistor circuit to send a full 12V to the brainbox module. I hooked this one up to the wire for the electric choke.
The only other wire you need to hook up is the BAT wire to the coil. This one is really easy. Simply take the original wire on the truck which went to the BAT post on the original points coil, and splice it into the BAT harness wire for the Duraspark system.
The rest of the wires are all included in the donor truck's wiring harness, or should be anyway. 1972FordCustom is correct that the green wire goes to the negative or TACH side of the coil.
If for some reason you don't have the complete wiring harness, you can use any wiring harness and module from any truck with the same module. Of course, the distributors won't interchange between motors, but the harnesses and connectors will interchange.
Good luck!
 

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Old Mar 21, 2006 | 05:37 PM
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bango,wut wire did u hook up the red wire to,i mean wich wire did u spice into,like the color,i a preciate all this help.i am trying to improve my truck be fore i drive it again this summer
 
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Old Mar 21, 2006 | 07:25 PM
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I'll have to look at it in the daylight to get the wire color.
 
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Old Mar 21, 2006 | 07:28 PM
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I found a better diagram, but it wont let me copy and paste....if you do a google search for duraspark, it has alot of them....look for one about halfway down the page, it just says duraspark....
 
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Old Mar 25, 2006 | 04:52 PM
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ok,wut color wire off the ingnition that is run/start thx..
 
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Old Mar 25, 2006 | 05:13 PM
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maybe this site will help...it's for a bronco, but it will wire up the same...
http://www.sierrabronco.com/duraspark.htm
you might have to copy and paste...
 

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Old Mar 26, 2006 | 04:40 PM
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so i need to splice into the brown wire right off the ignition switch?
 
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