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Old Sep 28, 2010 | 10:31 PM
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What the Fail happened here?

So today I was cleaning my distributor that I removed a couple months ago and realized that it's a points distributor!! My dad told me it had electronic ignition, and the coil is for electronic ignitions. Is it common to have point dizzys in place of electronic ones? Or is this some PO's emergency junk yard fix? Should I re-install it ( it apparently ran for years this way) or get an electric one? What the heck yall?!
 
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Old Sep 28, 2010 | 10:38 PM
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I think points was still optional in 74.
 
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Old Sep 28, 2010 | 10:43 PM
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It was, but everything else is for electronic ignition, from the control module to the coil. and the innards if the dizzy arent even adjusted to work properly...makes me scratch my head
 
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Old Sep 28, 2010 | 10:50 PM
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It was, but everything else is for electronic ignition, from the control module to the coil. and the innards if the dizzy arent even adjusted to work properly...makes me scratch my head
Hmm, I dunno then. Im sure somebody else will. I would like to see how its working also, lol.
 
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Old Sep 28, 2010 | 10:55 PM
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Something else to add to the name I guess. It stood like a stone wall....it ran when it shouldn't have!!
 
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Old Sep 29, 2010 | 04:37 PM
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Just giving a bump because I still don't know what the heck is going on with this ignition...
 
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