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Nov 20, 2006 | 03:09 PM

rchewitt50

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While replacing the clip for my vacuum advance arm inside the Duraspark dizzy of my 400, I moved a pickup wire out of the way by routing it on one of the armature vanes. Of course being the carefree guy that I am, I neglected to place the wire back in it's natural position before installing the cap again. As you can imagine, once I tried to turn it over, I severed this wire and the result was no spark. I made a feebal attempt at repairing it, and the truck will run, but as soon as it gets under load, forget it.

So where can I get a new one of these things? I called two auto parts stores, I called it a "pickup" and they did not know what I was talking about. I am not even sure that is what it is supposed to be called. I don't want to get a used one from a boneyard as this is a nicely worked and re-curved dizzy that I just can't see putting old parts into.

Nov 20, 2006 | 03:45 PM

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Call another parts store... Sounds like the ones you called were just dumb. The magnetic pickup assy is a common replacement part.

Nov 20, 2006 | 06:05 PM

rchewitt50

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Call another parts store... Sounds like the ones you called were just dumb. The magnetic pickup assy is a common replacement part.

Good help is hard to find. One call to the local non-chained store and sure enough, it is even in stock @$35.99 (borg warner) they had a niehoff for like $15, but something just didn't seem right about that. Suppose I will be re-timing after I install it.

Nov 20, 2006 | 06:21 PM

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Yup, that's Kansan for yes... You will need to check and reset the timing. Don't bust that wire next time.

Good help is not hard to find, they just don't want to pay for it.

Nov 21, 2006 | 01:17 AM

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i wouldn't have hesitated to put the http://www.niehoff.com/ part in for less than 1/2 price. they've been around forever, at least since i was a kid, and have always been good quality for me.

Nov 21, 2006 | 09:16 AM

rchewitt50

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i wouldn't have hesitated to put the http://www.niehoff.com/ part in for less than 1/2 price. they've been around forever, at least since i was a kid, and have always been good quality for me.

I totally understand that and usually agree with it. It was just in this case, it was in a place I didn't feel like going again, so when I saw the price difference, I just took the middle of the road part. I use niehoff stuff all the time, like rotors and caps and have NEVER had a problem with them. Who knows, maybe the BW part will hose on me and I will be going back anyways. My lazy **** has yet to install it.