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There's a name for threads like this I think. 'Hit-n-run' maybe? 'Like this': OP asks a question, probably gets the answer, but is never heard from again. Helpful, 'eh?

A general rule of thumb: Every tenth of a volt is a 10% reduction is battery capacity. Pick a number for your fully charged lead/acid battery (not AGM, not LiFe, not Li-Ion, not etc.), say 12.8V. If you measure it next week and it shows 12.7V, that is a 10% reduction in capacity. IF you...

If I may.... Rusty, you got it right from the standpoint of thinking righty-tighty/lefty-loosy and all, but it's NOT the 'bolt' of the contraption that is changing, it's the 'nut'. ...I think. Of course, it COULD have been a LHT assembly...:eek: Good pic!

I don't understand any of what you said...but you're wrong. That is not a reasonable approach to anything. I don't understand that. Might you mean it's adjusted such that the unit STARTS advancing at a measured 10" of vacuum? The distributor vacuum advance can doesn't 'pull' inches of Hg...

Read elsewhere on this forum: THAT is an excerpt from here: https://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/threads/how-to-limit-and-adjust-chrysler-vacuum-advance-cans.399753/ I read the first two to be opposite statements. I didn't go look up my spec sheet on the matter, but IIRC, the latter is...

A BTW that may make your mileage vary (YMMV): I've read that the Ford stuff stinks. I've read the Mopar stuff stinks. The bottle of Mopar additive I just bought was not at all malodorous. Maybe it's a 'used to' sort of thing. I've never looked forward to diff/manual trans maintenance 'cuz...

I looked briefly...didn't see this specific issue noted. It's got to be out there, I saying I didn't see it. Humor me. I recently replaced the lube in my 8-3/4 for no particular reason...just seemed a reasonable maintenance choice after years (very few miles) of use. I used a bottle of...

1. That the Pertronix coil does not require the use of a ballast resister is not the point. The point is: Does the engine react well to one being added. 2. That does not mean you HAVE 'full voltage' at the coil. 3. The question is not, 'What is the temperature of your coil?' The question...

Yes...but. IF the coil is overheating (engine runs OK at start, then starts fussing the OP says), a ballast might help. IF the engine runs OK for twice as long as it did? That would tell you the coil may well be overheating. Re: Sounds reasonable. The plug-gap-changing carb-swapping...

I think he is...but I didn't want to name anyone in particular. To the OP: I would suggest you read through this thread. There are a number of questions/suggestions I don't see you have responded to or answered. Like: Check voltage at the coil. Are you using a ballast resistor? Maybe I...

SOMEone in your area has a DC/Mallory distributor you could pop in and diagnose the problem in a minute. I have one I'd be glad to send...but I'm on the left coast. Shipping cost and time wasted would be...well...too much cost and a waste of time. So: Who on FABO knows a PA person with a...

That is what post #1 says is happening. Got it. I take it all back, then. Many apologies. It can't be a problem with the Pertronix 'cuz it came from the bay and was only used for ONE donut run. All things from the bay are all good all the time. Everybunny knows you can't argue with that...

Yup. I've read of and heard stories about troubles with the phasing of pick-up coil wires. That issue does seem to fit as a solution to this problem very well. But there is all sorts of scatter in other directions for some reason... With some problems, listening to folks that have seen and...

Did I miss it? I don't see a response to the below. It's a known issue. Has that been addressed?

...and the valleybilly wins a cupie doll! ...scientifically speaking of course. As the thread title might suggest, the post is about applying logic to a problem: 'The Scientific Method' if you like. It is not A Tale of Two Coils. If a car part gets hot under use/operation it would be easy...

No. It was not a comparison. There were facts stated concerning temperatures of two coils...but those facts were not a comparison between the two coils. The OP (original post) has to do with noticing how hot a coil got when in use...but the same coil in the same location in the same situation...

There was no comparison made. The 'difference' between the two coils is meaningless to the point attempted to have been made.

Ha! Using 'The Scientific Method', I must infer! (which makes this response another 'Did Not Use The Scientific Method' situation) It's the Pertronix coil that came with an FBO kit, which they say is a 40011. It does measure 1.5-ohms. That number matches the 40011 specs on the Pertronix...

Make it a solid driver. Put in a 318/trans combo that makes sense. Make it safe...new shocks, replace all the bushings (control arms, leaf springs, sway bar), new brakes, probably a rebuilt booster and master. Don't need any EFI, BB, stroker, four wheel disc stuff that will just be a...

What it is: The scientific method starts when you ask a question about something that you observe. That's what google tells me anyway. I bought a Pertronix coil some time back. I wired it in just to see if it worked. It did. I took it out, put it away for a later install date. Just put...

That is exactly the rub. I find nothing on the FBO site about NOT using solid plug wires with their box. I did ask FBO if I could use a solid COIL wire...they said NO. OK. I put together a spiral-core coil wire. Only then did I think...wait...I didn't ask about solid PLUG wires! I asked...

Far too much time wasted about nothing: Sorry. You are missing the point. The point? Said in the first post. Repeated in the 10th post. I have a $300 ignition system that ran in my car for a bit over ten minutes. Then it quit. I'm looking to find out why. If others here (and where else...

I recall that you have 'cuz I read what you write. AND....might even remember some of it. This: ...not that anyone with any sense would do such a thing. ...however was a poke at my own self, having done exactly that (run ATF and encountered...I thought...a problem).

That is my sense of the event, yes. There were several things happening at the same time. I could have misread events, but I don't think so. I was concerned from the beginning with how the whole noise/mess (what started this thread) came about. The 'feel' at the shifter didn't seem to quite...

A finishing touch is required for the possible edumuhcation of future readers: I think my noise/vibration was not the transmission at all. It was my ignition coil. I was running a brand new Accel 140001 (big yell'a brick). My previous coil was the same make/model that I'd run for 30 years...

I am familiar. Can you say what it is that causes that bucking behavior? Something is causing a come-and-go situation, but what is it? Centrifugal? I missed your earlier comment. Got it. In reply to other items mentioned: Current engine was put together in the early '00s. Likely to have...

A couple of quick notes to AJ: My intake is NOT an air-gap. The air-gap version was not available in 'Mopar' (IIRC) when I was manifold shopping. Yes, now it is. I did ask the question: "Will an air-gap help... with hot soak issues" some time back. I was sure the answer would be, 'Of...

Changing the Idle Air Bleed(s) would be a nice idea. I don't have an Ultra XP carb. Drilling/tapping/plugging/re-drilling the plug is not likely in my carb's future. Re: That is the entire point of my question. Bewy said.... Indeed, I have not checked my PCV in a while. While it could be...

Wire resistance: Not the issue in regard to my question. What is the issue: The field effect of intermittent high voltage transmission, what happens as the field builds and collapses. Not stranded: That is a reference to spiral wrapped core wires. I originally said 'solid', a reference to...

Cam is a Hughes 3844 (237º/243º@ .050" 108ºLSA). Installed straight up 'per Hughes recommendation. Cam card numbers matched my degree wheel numbers within 1/2º, so there does not seem to be anything 'ground in' to the cam. Now now...it's in my sig. A833. Holley 4779. Yes. 4-corner idle...