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  1. Where did you find those spark plug wires? I am looking for a similar set! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  2. Looking at your picture, your dizzy is about 60-80 degrees more clockwise than mine, i.e., the latchdown is not in the same position. Did you reinsert the new dizzy in exactly the same position. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  3. Sara, 4/9/17, Peet's Coffee, The Fountains, Roseville, Ca. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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  5. I am interested in finding out more info re the "rpm stopwatch" method of fine tuning my advance curve. Can someone point me in the right direction, please? I have looked through 123ignition's info and didn't see it. Thanks! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  6. Recommend electronic contact cleaner. I sprayed it as far into my blower switch as far as I could and was able to restore function. Overspray evaporates quickly. Good luck! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  7. We didn't use one, and maybe that wasn't smart, but my engine is extremely difficult to find timing references. We rotated the motor by hand so the rotor pointed at the #1 cylinder on the distributor just after the compression stroke. You can kind of feel the motor is hard to turn, compression, and then the rotor "jumps" quickly once the piston starts back down. Back up slightly and you should have it. This was about the 6 o'clock position in the distributor. See the video. My goal was to put the new distributor in EXACTLY the way the old one came out. I very carefully extracted the old distributor. Be aware the rotor "unwinds" CCW about 120 degrees when you pull the distributor up. I very carefully inserted the new distributor the same way, and it seated right at 6 o'clock. This is not well covered in the video. Looking back we should have shot a timing light on the marks before, and now would have been the time to make sure the timing was where is was before starting. It probably needs to be reset, so the next sunny day, I may spend finding my marks and see how close they are to where they should be. I am not a mechanic and don't recommend doing what we did. I did have a mechanic friend help, so I am a little assured we did a little something right! Ed makes it look so easy on the video! I am anxious to hear from knowledgeable mechanics on this subject... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  8. Installed mine. Bluetooth version in 75 automatic. They, 123ignitionshop, have a video on Utube which was not that helpful. I also bought a fresh Bosch coil. Negative earth ground, red to pos on the coil, black to negative, and blue to ground. The advance curve I needed inserted itself and I was off and going. I don't know where it came from, but seems to work well. I am curious to see how close the temp gauge of the distributor on the dashboard of the ap corresponds with the coolant temp of the engine. Great support from the company. Heidi promptly answered all my questions. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  9. Ordered both a bluetooth distributor and a fresh coil. Went back order for a short time, finally shipped, and I got it six days later in NorCal. Took some thinking to install, and I use an iPad setting on the dash above the shifter. The only car gauges I have that work are the temperature and fuel level. Did not have to program the curve. They popped onto the tablet from somewhere and were accurate for my 1975 automatic. More, testing tomorrow, but am thinking it is the best thing that could have happened to my 02. Thanks for all the info and effort to make these available! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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