Re: [AMC-list] Ebay intake/exhaust

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am running the BID distributor in my 77 Gremlin now.  I keep the connector greased liberally with dielectric grease.  I had one ignition failure in my driveway after I washed the engine while looking for an oil leak.  Otherwise fine.  Of course I did have to find a working distributor after the original one was discovered to have a blown advance diaphragm when I was resurrecting the car.

Joe Fulton

--- On Sat, 9/19/09, Glen Hoag <hoag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Glen Hoag <hoag@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Ebay intake/exhaust
> To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 8:04 AM
> At 09:13 PM 9/18/2009, tom jennings
> <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 16:28, Thomas Garner <Tgarner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > OH and one more thing. If Ebay item:330360518719
> would work in my 64 232,
> > > what else would I need (besides plugs, wires, cap
> and rotor) to make it
> > > work?
> > 
> > 
> > Points distributor... that connector is NOT stock, I
> don't recall any AMC
> > distributor having one of those two-wire hermaphrodite
> connectors on it.
> > Usually there's one wire to the coil and ground is
> metal to metal.
> 
> As Ken Ames pointed out, it's a 1975/77 Prestolite
> distributor, part of the "BID" system.  The reason that
> you don't see the 2-flat connector very often is that there
> was a NHTSA recall that directed the connectors be cut off
> and spliced directly into the harness.  That connector
> isn't sealed well and the contact surfaces can
> corrode.  High currents can generally cut through the
> crud, but the low current of the pickup coil can't, and it
> would lead the system to die on the road.  The running
> fix was to unplug and reseat the connector, once you knew
> where the problem was.
> 
> --Glen 
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