RE: IML: Ballast Resistor
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RE: IML: Ballast Resistor



Oil leakage is the usual cause of coil failure – and fortunately it gives you a lot of warning.  My Gold 68 ran for about 10 years with seepage from the coil, I finally replaced it because I didn’t like the mess, but it never actually quit.  The oil is there as a high voltage insulator, so theoretically, you would get into internal arcing if the oil all drained out.

 

I hope you saw the correction Bob Merritt sent in to my statement about the ballast resistor not being able to interfere with starting – that is not true for 1956!

 

Dick

 


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Subject: RE: IML: Ballast Resistor

 

Dick,

I understand the circuit NOW and was headed on the right track yesterday when sitting at my computer typing in that description but I didn't understand it last week when I was testing it.  If I had, I never would have bothered looking at it as the car isn't having any of the performance problems you describe.  I had simply been looking at the resister since the coil is definitely on its way out with low resistance on the secondary and signs of some oil leakage.

BTW, on a related note, I just wanted to put in a moderately good word for Mr. Bernbaum.  While they're customer service may be a bit gruff, I was extremely impressed with their speed and pricing.  The tune-up kit, coil, and wires I finished ordering last Thursday at 5pm were on my door step by the same time Friday.  And I paid less for all of that than just wires and a coil would have cost me elsewhere.

Jeff
'56 Sedan
Trenton, NJ





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