Last week I barely made it to the local library & back. Coasted the last 500 ft to my driveway*.
I figured it wuz the spark plugz wich I hadnt cleaned in 2 or so yirz, so I cleaned them then headed off to the grosery store.
Got about a mile befor it started stumbling and dying agen. I stopped on a side street and started messing with other igniition components with the help uv a mekanic who happened to be outside working on hiz car.
Chanjed the usual culprit - the ignition module, ground the tip uv the rotor clean on the pavement, then started it up. It idled fine, but az soon az I tried to go anywhere, same thing, stumbling and dying.
So, 2nd to last rezort (I still coud hav tried the distributor cap), I took out the Accel Super Coil and put the orijinal back in.
That worked!
In fact, it worked great! The car runz great now. I dont haf to jiggle the gas pedal befor akselerating az I hav for many yirz. I'v been living with a weak spark forever and didnt know it. I alwayz thot it wuz the Demon carburator needing work. Its likely my mileaje will go way up to.
I never had a coil go bad befor, so its just pure luk that I had a spare in the trunk junk box.
*hardly a driveway. Its just a patch uv mud in front uv my hows.
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This comes up just in time. I have just got my hands on a 76 motor home that doesn't want to respond to the gas peddle. Some one mentioned the acc pump. Going to look at the plugs and coil as well. Tanx.
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starshipconstellation wrote ...
I've had the Accel coil on two different cars over the years and had problems with both of them. Went back to the stock coil.
Even though I've always contended that there is no advantage to a performance ignition coil over stock in almost all street-driven applications, I swapped my stock coil for an Accel. It failed shortly after installing it so I took it back to the store. The guy at the counter seemed unsurprised. I exchanged it for a Mallory coil which was a bit more money. Accel and Mallory are both owned by MSD, so I was concerned that it was actually the same coil with different branding. The Mallory coil has been fine though.
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Mike66Chryslers wrote ...
starshipconstellation wrote ...
I've had the Accel coil on two different cars over the years and had problems with both of them. Went back to the stock coil.
Even though I've always contended that there is no advantage to a performance ignition coil over stock in almost all street-driven applications, I swapped my stock coil for an Accel. It failed shortly after installing it so I took it back to the store. The guy at the counter seemed unsurprised. I exchanged it for a Mallory coil which was a bit more money. Accel and Mallory are both owned by MSD, so I was concerned that it was actually the same coil with different branding. The Mallory coil has been fine though.
I have had really good luck with the MSD Blaster II coils. I have at least two of them on old big block Mopars with excellent results.