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  1. Bill W

    Help! I'm burning up coils in my M43!!

    You should have a vented fuel cap on the M-37 like the one inthe pic, make sure the ( fording ) valve in the cap is open ( see pencil ). The little 1/8"vent line that runs from the tank to the airhorn is for when your fording and really doesn't vent enough when your out running high rpms.
  2. Bill W

    Help! I'm burning up coils in my M43!!

    Jim Alans article was on his long gone website "MV Central" this was going back almost 12 years
  3. Bill W

    Help! I'm burning up coils in my M43!!

    If your getting 6ohms means the resister is letting to much voltage to the coil/windings, this has been a ongoing problem with imported coils, if this was me I would ad a external resister to the dist power lead this will give lower voltage to the coil to which it will run cooler. This symtom...
  4. Bill W

    Help! I'm burning up coils in my M43!!

    Tom Think about it Do you really think that big metal dist thats attached to a hot block and also has hot air blowing on it from the radiator fan is gonna be kept cool by 2, 3 ft long 1/8" od" lines
  5. Bill W

    Help! I'm burning up coils in my M43!!

    YES OF I stated how to check the ohms in a internal resister coil in my previous post. In 14yrs I've only seen one of these with that original setup, I have a e-mail in to a buddy to see if he has a picture of this setup Also you guys, they are VENT lines NOT cooling lines that run from the...
  6. Bill W

    Help! I'm burning up coils in my M43!!

    OF There is a ballast system and ( as I mentioned ) its internal, early M-series ( 1951-2 ) had a external ballast resister which was stacked under the coil ( early non resister coils were shorter and sat ontop of the wafer type resister in the distributor ) these were superceded by the taller...
  7. Bill W

    Help! I'm burning up coils in my M43!!

    Miltary coils have internal resisters The ohm resistence on your coil should be between 10-14ohms anything lower will cause shorter coil life ( coil runs hotter ), if you do have low resistence then you can ad a external resister to bring it up ( to check resistance put ohm tester leads across...
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