I have to say that it sounds like what solved your problem was changing to a
dizzy without a wobbly shaft, rather than changing from EI to points, so I
wouldn't make any generalizations... try points with a wobbly dizzy some
time to see what I mean.
on 3/4/03 7:13 PM, MonteMorris at mmorris@nemr.net wrote:
> I had this problem on the 79B and had a lot of trouble diagnosing it. It had
> OEM electronic ignition which was bad. I replaced it with a Crane electronic
> ignition which wasn't reliable because the dizzy wobbled too much. As
> suggested by several listers, I finally just took out the electronic
> ignition and went with a 45D dizzy with points and haven't had a problem
> since.
>
> Monte
> 79B, Carmine
> 67B, BRG
> 74 1/2 Rust, parts car
>
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