Clink69

Well I have a total of about 450 Miles on my new motor. Had been cruising around today and had it cut off several times. Found a loose battery cable and thought that was it, but , later in the day after I changed the oil and began my traditional test drive I made it half way out of the garage and it Dies.:cuss Won't start, won't spark. Nothing. :confused:

Just downloaded MSD trouble shooting info and will check it out first thing in the morning. :rolleyes: :cry

Boy if its the MSD (I have both Tach drive dist and MSD 6AL) it sure doesn't last long. Only have about 2K miles on it.

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63Banshee

I’m going to research this. I’ve never been told of a MSD failure until I read about them on this forum. I wonder if it has to do with the electrical systems on C3’s.

Steve Straus

Sorry to hear it man, let me know if you need any help.

71vettman

just a thought is to make sure that the white wire that comes out of the box is'nt grounded somewhere since that will kill the entire system when grounded.

I have 4000 on the exact same setup and it has been working great
good luck.
Kevin


[Modified by 71vettman, 12:32 AM 2/10/2002]

PatsLs1vette

mine lasted 2 weeks before it took a poopie..still waiting for msd to send it back to me... :mad

73 LS-4

I've seen it for many years, back in about 93-94 me and two of my friends all bought 6a's at the same time (two 5.0L mustangs and my ranger), withing two years both of theirs went out and mine lasted about 3. This and a few others I talked to made me shy away from the old style MSD's. I went with a Crane Hi-6 on my ranger after the MSD, and it worked great, never had a problem with it. I'll be putting an ignition box in the 73 here shortly but I'm thinking about a Mallory unit to go along witht he other Mallory components, I'd consider one of the digital MSD's but not the old 6 series style anymore.

:cheers:
Pat Kunz

MasterDave

Clink69, this is fairly common on mid-years and I suppose more than likely it's happening on yours also. Go to the connector on the firewall, should be under your steering column, engine side. The big red wire is likely the culprit. Wiggle it, twist it or whatever and see if your car lights off. If it does you have the blade connector inside going south on you. Darn hard to make a connection with the wimpy little connectors inside the black pull-off connector. I finally had to hard wire the red wire to the inside wire and haven't had it quit once in two years now.