Has anyone had a coil die on the road?

[Anonymous]

That happened to me yesterday down in the states. BAM! BOOM! Lots of brown smoke! Dead on the side of the road. I look and the coil is putting out maybe 1.5 volts, a weak pink spark. I was given a ride to a car parts store and they had a universal 6 volt coil that I installed and the car was fine after running for a few minutes. It sounds like I blew out an exhaust gasket also. I’m thinking that a lot of unburnt petrol was igniting intermittently causing the noise. My question is, while the car ran OK, can I expect any engine damage such as a blown head gasket? Damaged pistons? The noise was loud like gunfire. Not fun. Any advice?

[Anonymous]

As it turns out, the coil was fine. I asked John Gillard and he said the condensor and so it was. never had one fail on me before. Thanks to all who wrote! 🙄

[Anonymous]

Sorry Larry I didn’t know about this post. Not seeing it I didn’t subscribe to it. However I have just been advised by email of your 2nd post on it – it still shows that I have not subscribed so I don’t know why I was advised. I have a lot of trouble with this Forum and Mick keeps looking at w=the way O am set up but says there is nothing wrong. I think that this proves that there is.

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