Ignition Coil

[TedW]

Yeah. Now I'm curious to know what you have hooked up to that side of the coil...

Soooo, I checked my coil: it turns out that there is one black wire on one side that appears to lead to the dizzzz. The other side has a bunch o' accessories connected to it.

I have added my electric fan to the mix - to the side that has the other accessories.

Apologies for posting incorrect info!

Many thanks for the help!

Ted

[I Leak Oil]

So your one black wire to the dist. is just that....coil to points. The ganglia of wires on the other side happens to be the constant hot side.

Please...do tell what this bunch of accessories consists of! My truck's definition of accessories is a dome light and a backup light.

[novanick]

Ah sweet, thanks fellas. I just thought it funny that there was an option for an additional option on both the pos and neg connections. wiring something (like an electric fan) to the positive side makes sense. Either way, with a new coil, points, condenser and plug wires the trucks working great. Need to tweak the timing a little, but other then that A-1!

[SafeAirOne]

wiring something (like an electric fan) to the positive side makes sense.

Nice job on getting it running again. I don't have a distributor on mine, but all three 'no-start' issues on a friend's rover have all been condensor failures.

I was just going to say that the 2.6 ran it's electric fuel boost pump off the white wire on the (+) terminal of the coil but it's a bad place to power an electric cooling fan. Reason being is that after you turn off the ignition and stop supplying power to the fan, the fan turns into a little generator, sending electricity back up the line and keeping the coil powered (and the engine running) till the fan spools down sufficiently.

Having said that, that's exactly where my electric cooling fan is powered from. Whenever I turn my engine off, it takes about 2 seconds for the engine to shut down (my diesel fuel shutoff solenoid is powered by the wire that used to go to the (+) side of the coil back in it's gasoline-powered days).

[o2batsea]

It is my preference to operate switched accessories from a dedicated power feed. A wire jumped off the main fuse is better. The wire supplying switched 12V+ to the coil is awfully small gauge for accessories that are downstream. Best is a solenoid operated power strip.

[SafeAirOne]

It is my preference to operate switched accessories from a dedicated power feed. A wire jumped off the main fuse is better. The wire supplying switched 12V+ to the coil is awfully small gauge for accessories that are downstream. Best is a solenoid operated power strip.

That's the way it SHOULD be done--that white wire is tiny and there shouldn't be much hooked up to it at all. I attribute my fuel pump and cooling fan being connected to the white wire to laziness and temptation.