Steel Cam Gear

[baddad457]

One thing to remember when dealing with computerized parts houses and inexperienced parts people is to make sure you actually look at the screen and what they're odering for you. I've caught the people at Advanced clicking on the wrong part several times. I'm sure the others do this as well, but I deal most often with Advanced cause I've built a rapport with the people there and the manager as well, my son used to work for em before he went off to the USMC. I used to do the same thing with another old time parts house, but that was with looking thru the parts books on my own. I learned long ago that parts people are more than glad to let you look up hard to find stuff on your own, letting them do other things with their time while you make up your own mind.

 

[sparky2eh]

Well just got back from the local Napa store...... think I made headway this time. Ordered a complete dizzy from the 85 GT, it will be here Thursday.... even had a choice of Duraspark or TFI dizzys..... so I hope that means I get the correct one....... and as an added bonus there was a note that the Duraspark dizzy had a steel drive gear and was not compatible/interchangeable with an application requiring a cast drive gear
Decided to skip on just trying to order the steel drive gear, again, it was available from MSD and cost just about as much as a new dizzy....... and now I do not have to drill the roll pin hole........ just stab in a new dizzy
Hopefully it works out this time. Thanks again for all the help

 

[kimcrwbr1]

Cool did you get a harness for the dizzy to module I got mine out of a 84 4 cyl ranger. In the 84 the module just plugs right into the 2 wire connector the colors will be reversed but it is correct (red/white). The dizzy plugs right into the module and the green wire on the module goes to the neg on the coil. Any coil that runs on battery voltage works just fine and you wont need a ballast resistor for the coil. Just use the spark plugs heat range for any 5.0 with a TFI ignition.
http://www.carbdford.com/tech/HEI/hei.htm this module is also very dependable and works great with the duraspark dizzy.

 

[sparky2eh]

Yes I have everything I need for the ignition now... well as soon as the new dizzy gets here. Even though I have accumulated quite a stock pile of used Ford parts over the years I was missing that elusive steel gear....
I have actually used that GM setup you mentioned for quite a few years on many different swaps...... works quite well on Mopar engines as well.
The modules are around $20 here, but I have a good friend who owns a scrap yard so they are even cheaper Just keep a spare in the glove box because when they do fail it is instantly.......... as in turn off the engine, go grab something in a store, come back out and the engine won't fire.... I know this from experience
Thanks again for all the help.

 

[baddad457]

Great thing about GM parts Ford stuff always at least gets you home.