'36 Coil Puked

[Charlie ny]

So vintage Jeff Horrocks. Alice and I will always remember your dad....always. 'Swapping'
rear axle assemblies in the Little League headquarters in Pennsylvania. God bless you
Henry Horrocks. ( What city was that)?

Charlie ny

 

[Tinker]

Great follow through and memory. Went to the trouble of purchasing a backup coil and ignitions of my stuff from skip and bubba when I did my first ones. Skip does dizzies too. Guess my point is, if there is a good product now, get an extra. Also hoard other parts to be 2 deep on the cars actually own. Not things I don't have.

I still marvel at the idea that people went ape sh!t over toilet paper a bit back. Who buys tp 4 rolls at a time, why would you bother on something you use all the time. Still using the 128 roll from costco from 2019. If you wait till you need it, it's too late. Well that's also because I don't have to choose between tp and mac and cheese for the month. Guess I'm weird and talk too much about things that are not a secret. haha But 99% of the time if a friend needs help, I'll do my best even if that means being a grunt and knowing it's not reciprocal. Then again maybe not.




Great story about you dad and the community! Always admired your additions here Tangled/Jeff.

 

[JM 35 Sedan]

Good post to see come up again 10 years later, and a good reminder that if you have a battery kill switch, and need to jump (as in drift on an incline) or push start your vehicle, make sure that battery kill switch is not in the "off" position. Strangely enough, the generator alone will supply power to the ignition system without having the battery connected. However, without having the resistive load of the battery in the circuit, who knows what voltage that generator can produce, and how much current was flowing through the ignition system. Apparently it was enough to fry the coil windings, and I'm surprised the generator windings and cutout didn't self destruct as well.