" From: Glen Hoag <hoag@xxxxxx> " " Richard, " This is with the Prestolite "BID" system? The pickup coil could be " bad, or the connector between the pickup and the control module could " be flaky. Unplugging and reseating the connector can bring it back " to life for a while. There was a recall campaign covering all " Prestolite ignition systems. I think I have the TSB for it. One " solution was to cut the connector off and solder the leads directly " to the harness. also, these days you could take a less drastic approach of cleaning the pickup harness plug with contact cleaner, then using contact grease. both were developed for this sort of problem but weren't widely available in the '70s/early '80s. the prestolite was very sensitive to this because its sensor had a very low voltage / low current signal. finally, if you give up on the prestolite, you can go -forward- to the amc/ford duraspark electronic setup, or perhaps more easily, an hei from a late-'70s chevy 250/292. you only need to swap the drive gear from your distributor to drop it in. the cap has sparkplug-style towers, so you'll need a set of chevy 250 plug wires too. ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list