duraspark II

[seabeeranger]

need some help understanding where to hook my wires up for a ignition. im thinking its just the terms that are messing me up.

in the top left where it says "ignition switch" is that the actual switch in the column in the cab? my truck being a 94' would it have the ballast resistor already or do i need to make one up? some of the write ups i read say to hook the white wire up to the "s" terminal on the soleniod. would that be on the actual starter or the relay thats mounted on the fender? maybe im just nuking this...

 

[kimcrwbr1]

You dont need a ballast resistor if you use a TFI coil or any coil that runs on battery voltage. For the module the red wire goes to key on hot the white wire goes to the start circuit key on start and it gets its ground through the black wire on the dizzy, the green wire is neg to coil and pos on the coil gets hooked up with the key on hot. The other twwo wires purple and orange go to the dizzy pickup coil it dont matter they can be reversed. The ballast resistor is just to lower the voltage to the coil and not necessary with the proper coil. The square tfi coil is plenty of spark just match the coil with the plugs for proper spark such as 87 ford 302 TFI use the plugs for the same year depending on the plugs size and length for your engine.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

Just to be clear yes it is the ignition switch and yes it is the start solenoid just tie into the small wire from the switch to the solenoid what the white wire on the module does is retard the timing for a quick start condition. You can also put it on the start wire to the starter the big one if you want.

 

[fordmike1]

You can hook up the red wire from the Dura-spark box to the red power (+) wire at the coil and hook the white wire to the "I" terminal at the starter solenoid. If your starter solenoid doesnt have that "I" terminal then you could hook it to the big terminal that the starter hooks to and not the one that the battery positive hooks up to. Good luck.