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You must be friggin' kidding me... (coils)

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Mystery solved

Mystery solved

As another thread says, "You can't fix stupid," and as Forrest says, "Stupid is as stupid does." It's a mystery of medical science that I can walk and breathe at the same time.

The reason the engine was running on two cylinders after installing the coil relay mod is that I bought the wrong kind of relay. The 5-pin relay I bought switches between the two outputs, 87 and 87a, instead of running both at the same time. When one coil got juice, the other didn't, depending on whether the ignition was switched on or off. This also means that for two days it's been running the battery down, although the current draw was too low to hurt anything.

Tomorrow I'll go buy the correct relay and all will be fine, provided that I can make the solder connections for the coil primary wires.

Also, my valve cover gaskets came in today so this weekend we'll check the valves and install the new tach drive gear. I hope that will go smoothly.
 
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