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Mar 10, 2008 | 07:23 PM

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dgrant09

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Originally Posted by Norm Spaulding

Thanks to all for suggestions. Nothing worked. I finally replaced the distributor with a reman. unit, went back to breaker points and condensor and she fired immediately. Am assuming that the replacement Pertronix unit (read my original post) was bad or burned out too although they are supposed to be protected from high voltage. Think I will just follow another reader's advise and replace points with each oil change and avoid the aggravation. Again, thanks to all for your help.

Glad it's cranking over for you.

Hey Danger Dave, Sounds like an Echo here. Danger Dave just suggested I give up the Duraspark route and stick with the stock set up in our '72, 390, AT. We almost went to Pertronix.