Hello all,
I have a 53 Plymouth that was converted to 12v before I bought it. The conversion is a "hack job" at best and needs to be gone over......
Anyway, I have a miss in the car when I am driving it. It usually occurs when I have the engine is a pull. The cap, rotor, points and plug wires are pretty bad and I need to replace. Here are some questions I have....
1. If I buy points, condenser, cap and rotor that are made for a 1953 Plymouth at one of the box parts stores, I am sure they will be assuming I still have a 6V system. Will these work with a 12 Volt system.
2. I was noticing that on my firewall there was a ballast resistor but it was not hooked up. I then noticed that on my (+) side of the coil I have 12V and also on my (-) side I also have 12v going to my distributor. Is this right? On all my previous cars (that were 12v from the factory) the switch feed took the 12 v thru a balast resistor, droped it to 6 volts and then when to the (+) side of the coil. Do I need to limit my volts to the coil to 6V? I checked continunity of the resistor on the firewall and it is shorted out. I have continunity and no resistance.....
The car has what looks like a GM alternator installed.
I have never worked on a 6v conversion so I don't know if any of this is OK or not....
Thanks for any help you can give....