Ignition Setup

[layedout72]

so when I go to the parts store, just ask for a points eliminator kit for a 72 f100 302 eh?

[layedout72]

So I get the Points Eliminator kit, and a duralast coil which should match a stock replacement. Get home...drop the coil, dented, and chipped. DAMNIT! welp, guess that will make a good paper weight.

Anyways, with this kit, can I install it while out of the motor, or does the dizzy need to be setup in the motor?

[kid]

The coil is probably still good they have a large space inside before you hit the windings. Take a reading with the multimeter.

You can install on the bench!

[layedout72]

So I don't need to worry about TDC and all that, just get everything installed and worry about that stuff later? Once I go to put it on the motor with the kit installed..

[kid]

Sure build on bench, TDC the motor later and stab the dizzy with # 1 anywhere you like to have it. There have been many a dizzy built on the bench and later installed in my shops. We even set points and line up on a number 1 reference that we marked with paint while building benched dizzys.

[layedout72]

Well, I learned something today I guess. My stock dizzy used the flat/wide style cap, so I cleaned and painted the "riser"for that style cap to mount to. I go to the parts store, buy the cap they have, its the tall slender kind. I believe HEI style or something to that effect, I may be wrong there though. Well, reguardless....I painted that piece for nothing.

So I am sure, the center of the "rotor" of the Point delete kit, should push against the coil plug part of the cap, correct?

[kid]

yes it does,
Can you put a pic of your dizzy on the site?

In 72 that should not have been your cap style. It was not until Duraspark that it came out. In 75 I believe.

[layedout72]

[68F250]

You really don't want to be painting the cap or adapter, it ruins the dielectric properties.

The big cap & adapter debuted in '77, came on the Duraspark II.

[layedout72]

so why do I have it? . Does it "change" anything?

[layedout72]

alright, so before I do this distributor install, do i need to prime the oil pump? It says in the manual to do so, but I don't think that autozone or any one rents the FORD oil pump primer out, only GM/Chevy. If I do need to do this, this gets oil to the heads and everything correct?

[kid]

You prime the engine if it has been apart, not because the dizzy is out. You have the right cap in that pic for the Accel kit.

[kid]

You really don't want to be painting the cap or adapter, it ruins the dielectric properties.

The big cap & adapter debuted in '77, came on the Duraspark II.

Actually painting the cap with a non conductive paint (Krylon contains no metal in that color) will not effect the dielectric properties of the cap. Basic rules of Electron properties.

[layedout72]

You prime the engine if it has been apart, not because the dizzy is out. You have the right cap in that pic for the Accel kit.

it got a full rebuild just buttoning up the last bit of things to get it back in the truck.

[rjewkes]

it'll be best to prime it. I think auto zone does have the primer for the ford.