Thread: Trouble with 79 Ford F250 351 Winsor

Tweet

yea, and while your at it ditch the Duraspark II modual...a GM HEI modual can be used and there a whole lot cheaper. just need to zip tie an old PC heat sink to it with some thermal paste

Originally Posted by Matt167

yea, and while your at it ditch the Duraspark II modual...a GM HEI modual can be used and there a whole lot cheaper. just need to zip tie an old PC heat sink to it with some thermal paste

BALONEY!!!!

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Duraspark that HEI will cure

Originally Posted by IC2

BALONEY!!!!

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Duraspark that HEI will cure

my grandparents had an LTD that went thru moduals more frequently than monthly. it would get so it wouldn't start hot ( crank tho ). they sold it for $600 before it was even 10 years old... friend of my Faimly also had a Jeep with the Duraspark II. same no hot start condition. he put a few moduals in it before finally getting rid of it...

last time I bought a new Duraspark box it was around $80, and an HEI modual is around $30.. the distributors are a good retrofit. my Falcon had 1. but I used an MSD box to control it. did get the modual for it, but returned it shortly after and then got the MSD

Originally Posted by Matt167

my grandparents had an LTD that went thru moduals more frequently than monthly. it would get so it wouldn't start hot ( crank tho ). they sold it for $600 before it was even 10 years old... friend of my Faimly also had a Jeep with the Duraspark II. same no hot start condition. he put a few moduals in it before finally getting rid of it...

last time I bought a new Duraspark box it was around $80, and an HEI modual is around $30.. the distributors are a good retrofit. my Falcon had 1. but I used an MSD box to control it. did get the modual for it, but returned it shortly after and then got the MSD

An Airtex is ~$30, a Standard is ~$56. The MOST I ever paid for one was less then $30 and that was a Standard for my 'bucket in 1988!!!! Whoinhel wants to screw around with bastardizing a 30 year old pickup ignition system unless he was doing a lot more then using it as a DD!!!!

And yes, the ignition pickup that used to be ~$12 is the source of many headaches - and they are now close to $30