Re: [AMC-list] Ebay intake/exhaust

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

In my years of AMC auto wreckin' I found that probably half of the Presto-lite
distributors had blown vacuum diaphragms.

Ken


Quoting 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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