several questions

[barbee6043]

1. What year/or month did electronic ign. begin on the Duster SLANT cars?

2. Duster in question is 71 slant car. It has a 2 field alternator and points dist. and newer style VR. I know I can ground one of the field wires. Which one?? BUT must I then go to old style VR or can I use the newer style ( triangle place to plug n wires)...??

3. AND, can I run the 2 wire alternator with the newer VR and the POINTS dist.!??????

I bought this cobbled together wonder like this. thanks...

4. I got it home changed points/condenser, ballast,new plugs... It had not been on the roads in what I am told by PO who got it from another PO,,,,for 10-15 years but someone had no doubt freshened the carb as it fired and ran great around the yard as I worked on brakes. then it dies. starts back up but runs like it is either flooding out or not getting right current. then won't start. I find coil is out putting out good current with the old coil wire to valve cover test. the big coil wire is good.
SO I jump the batt. to coil + , it then fires up and runs great. I take OFF the jumper . And starts and runs great after. ballast tests .7 ohms. new OEM coil, points, condenser.
I did the MADD deal running new big wires thru the firewall but kept the amp gauge after cleaning it.

I know ...install electronic system, but I really want to just keep the points system right now.
5. One question is why did it not start till I jumped the battery to coil +, I take off jumper, and it starts fine now and runs fine now???????

thanks

 

[barbee6043]

I found some answers to my qestions:

1. 72 or 3, my 71 came with 2 field alt. but Electrinic ignition it was not offerrd in 71 for what I came find.

2. It came with 2 field alt. and the newer style VR.

3. Yes. mine came that way factory.

4. Seems that jumping from batt. to coil + put a large voltage into system, and appearantly made a bad wiring contact good.

Since it died while running, and then had intermittent trouble starting at the ignition switch,... I checked as mentioned by ??, the voltage at the VR blue wire and batt. + with key on run, I get .9 V which is high and indicates a bad connection at ign switch, firewall connection?? this might cause an overcharge situation. I have checked this before while running well and was not overcharging. when it was running poorly I did not try to check such.

not sure if any of this is clear, if anyone but myself has any need of such info, never the less I followed up best could.

 

[67Dart273]

The alternator / VR has nothing to do with the ignition system. You CAN run the newer isolatet field alternator with the 69/ earlier regulator but I don't know why you would want to. You can ground EITHER of the alternator field terminals it does not matter, and run the other to the old style VR

 

[67Dart273]

Why it did not start with coil jumper? Don't know look carefully and make sure the coil + is not hooked to the distributor. However, bypassing the coil resistor is an EXCELLENT way to burn up a set of points especially if you are "screwing around" trying to get it to fire with the coil jumpered.