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Offline Horse

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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #30 on: November 12, 2011, 05:23:58 AM »
I'm glad the ol' boy still carries his weight.  I do believe, if I read these posts correctly, that my old carb, tires and possibly alternator swapped over to your bird to make her run like she do.  I've been off the map working on my stock, metllaic gray '87 but I'm glad to see the legacy of the Horse live on past Kalamazoo.

And yes, the factory calls that color "copper"
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #31 on: November 12, 2011, 05:30:16 AM »
Oh, and by the way... Congragulations.  Good to see that some of us get to go home to somebody after we close the hood.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #32 on: November 14, 2011, 05:14:19 PM »
yes sir... its officially an eagle/horse hybrid. and thanks everyone.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #33 on: December 06, 2011, 05:33:18 PM »
HELP!!! Hey guys and gals... busted knuckles went on strike two nites ago and i cant figure out whats wrong. Turns over good but wont start. i got power to the coil but wont start. I dont know what to check i swapped the coil for the one off the horse and it still dont help.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #34 on: December 06, 2011, 05:56:30 PM »
Plugs, wires, rotor, cap
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #35 on: December 07, 2011, 07:01:04 AM »
cap and rotor are brand new, maybe only 3 months old. it ran great sunday morning and wouldnt start monday morning. could it be the module on the inner fender? i know nothing about ford style ignition. ive been wrenching on gm junk all my life.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #36 on: December 07, 2011, 02:35:28 PM »
Could be the pickup coil in the distributor also. Between the violet and orange wires should be 400-800 ohms.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #37 on: December 07, 2011, 07:36:19 PM »
i checked tonight and i dont have any spark from the coil. at least thats what my screwdriver in the coil wire said. so its a problem before the distributor. im really thinkin the brain/ecm/computer/complicated doomaflaggie. will that interchange from an 81 to an 87?
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #38 on: December 09, 2011, 07:12:51 AM »
im just gonna uncomplicate this whole situation. found a brand new hei distributor ready to drop in and run with just a hot wire. 65 bucks well spent. unless im an idiot and im not thinkin this through all the way.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #39 on: December 09, 2011, 11:13:03 AM »
Make sure you wire the HEI straight off the starter solenoid AND use a 12V regulator.  This way you will get the required/constant 12V the HEI needs and you will have a line of protection built in.  The ceramic resistors will get HOT!!!
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #40 on: December 10, 2011, 09:39:32 AM »
just as a curious question, for the six years that i raced stock cars i never heard of anyone running resistors and regulators or anything... we all just ran a hot wire from a toggle switch so whats the purpose behind all this? I dont want to set my car ablaze or nothing.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #41 on: December 12, 2011, 01:07:28 AM »
AFAIK when cars were 6 volt they didn't need a resistor. When they moved to 12 volts they found the points burned up too quickly and the coil got hot so they added a resister/wire to knock it back to 6-8 volts. For racing I expect the time involved wasn't long enough to cook a set of points.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #42 on: December 13, 2011, 10:04:19 PM »
ah gotcha. makes sense.
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #43 on: December 16, 2011, 08:30:36 PM »
ok... got the distributor in and new plugs and wires. i can make it run really good with out the vacuum advance but when i put it in gear it wants to stall. if i hook up the vac advance it advances to much and stalls. Ideas?
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Re: Operation: Busted Knuckles
« Reply #44 on: December 16, 2011, 10:06:40 PM »
Sounds like your using manifold vac instead of ported
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