Bud;
You wrote;
"The 75 TR6 came stock with a ballast resistor coil. I am not sure if mine
still has the ballast resistor or not, as I am not sure what it looks like.
Could
someone describe what it and where it would be located. There is a wire
coming off of the coil to a small cylinder, about 1 inch long by 1/2 inch in
diameter and is attached to one of the coil bracket bolts. It terminates
there, and
in not inline to anything else. What is that?"
On my '76 the resistor is one of the two wires that run to the coil. The
thinner wire delivers 12 volts when the key is on "start," the thicker wire
with the cloth wrapping delivers 6 volts when the key is in the "on"
position. I too had a little blue can-like doo-hickey attached to the coil
and held on by the coil bolt. Dave @ TRF told me this is the radio
interference suppressor, which keeps the spark from making noise on the
radio (the engine souds so sweet, who needs a radio?).
To bypass the resistor wire when I installed my 12 volt non-resistor coil, I
ran a suitably thick white wire from the fuse block to the coil and removed
the original two wire completely.
Brian Yarborough
1976 TR-6
CF55886UO
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