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In this Discussion
- EssexAdv January 5
- Ken U-Tx January 2
- SuperDave January 6
- Tallent R January 3
- Uncle Josh January 2
8 cylinder coil location
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That's the right location for the coil, only mine is mounted vertically. Guess the juice goes either way.
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Ken U-Tx , I would assume that motor is rebuildable but have never opened it up. It ran good and burnt no oil at all. But had a rattle in it simmilar to a loose rod under no load. Or when you would rap the rpm's up and down quick you could hear it.
But the noise was not in the bottom it was in the top ,between 4-5 cylinder. My thoughts were a piston hitting the head due to worn bearings in rod or wrist pin. Or maybe the thrust washer on the cam has broken.
Thats all I can tell you about that one ,plus have a few missing parts now Ive borrowed .I have others sitting around too. Most I dont know much about condition.
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Well, the 40 coil is mounted on the firewall, in the 1st pic but
the stepdown motor in the 2nd pic has a bracket shown to the left of the wires with 2 verticle holes for the coil. Interestingly, the stepdown used a similar loom bracket like the 40, lower on the motor.
The 3rd pic is the 40 CC motor I did for William Gates. The wires with attached ends will not go thru these metal looms, so I slit the ends open, pried them apart, to insert the wires, then made a couple of clips from copper pipe to hold the ends together. I guess they could be tack welded.
In the earlier engines, there was a metal ring to group the wires near the intake manifold, which I replaced with a larger rubber ring I had as ya can't get the wire ends thru the metal ring either. Bill will probably use a tie wrap at this location.
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That's why I prefer to make my own wire sets. I can push the spark plug ends through the looms before I push the rubber boots onto the wire and crimp the plug terminals on. I buy the Packard 440 type 7mm wire in a bulk roll, along with the boots and terminals needed.
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Ken, That is what i have been doing on all my cars. Allows me to make a nice neat installation by having the wires at the exact length. Some one appears to have done that with this car unless it was one of those "universal" kits. I used some silicone on the boots to keep the moisture out and had a dickens of a tme keeping the boots on! The air that was trapped kept pushing them back off! LOL.
Here is a picture of the wire loom on my car. Has a center clip for the coil wire. It mounts on the tab that is located on the back top of the intake. A threaded hole. Holds the wires above the exhaust manifold. looks like I am missing the lower one.. Still can't figure why the Coil wire clip. Coil shouldn't be anywhere near there. This bracket doesn't appear to have been altered either. Oh well...Guess I'll make something and ignore the extra clip.
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