Yes it was true, but you had to be sure of the wring polarity. Electrons
flow from Negative to Positive, and the build-up will show up on the
Positive point. Which is positive will depend on your vehicle's ground
polarity.
Mike Higgins
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From: "paul" <paulholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:46 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] Fwd: Re: [FWDLK] ignition points on old hemi engines
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Subject: Re: [FWDLK] ignition points on old hemi engines
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:08:25 -0400
From: paul <paulholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: paul <paulholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 9/14/2011 12:57 PM, Ted Blackington wrote:
Hello Web-
I have two mid-fifties Mopars with hemi engines, a 56 and a 55. If
allowed to rest for several weeks or months the points will not fire,
and have to be carefully filed to obtain spark. The points (dual) are
almost new, having replaced them several times. The cars go nowhere,
just rest in the carport. I have replaced them several times-
My later Chrysler products with single points had no problems-am I
getting a bad batch of points from NAPA or the on line sellers (Chinese
maybe??) My last attempt to file them resulted in the contact completely
breaking free from the arm-
Is anyone else having a similar problem? Any solutions??? I'm getting
too old and inflexible to crawl way back there under the hood each time
it happens-
Your help appreciated !!!! (Yeeow! got zapped again!) Ted Blackington
I think this is a problem with the condensor, they can die, and about
the only test I think a home mechanic can make is a dead short test.
a bad condensor usually surfaces as a pretty short lifespan of the
points I recall, as well as maybe more radio noise from the system
possibibibibly
Postyscript, I think I recall that there was a clue to the deposits
building up on the contact, depending on which one was getting the
deposits, that was also considered a hint as to weather or not you had the
coil wired right polarity wise. I think it was if the build up was on the
fixed contact you were ok, if on the arm contact you had the coil
reversed, or was that vicy-versy?
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