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enaberif · 01-04-2015, 10:53 PM

You know its funny. I was looking up this information the other day myself and it seems like a lot of the key or critical things to know how to do is all black art or kept to a person.

You are right in that you plug that into the cap as shown but then you have to run a 10g minimum wire from the firewall bulkhead to the distributor.

With a truck that had points I've read that people say you can push the connector for the power wire for the distributor out of the firewall bulkhead because the feed wire for a point distributor only feeds if I remember 5-9v or something. So you have you have to pull this wire out and replace it with a proper wire to feed to the distributor.

Its the wiring from the bulkhead connector to the distributor which still has me confused.

01-04-2015, 10:53 PM	#2
enaberif Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Calgary, AB Posts: 1,181	Re: How to replace a points distributor with an H.E.I.? You know its funny. I was looking up this information the other day myself and it seems like a lot of the key or critical things to know how to do is all black art or kept to a person. You are right in that you plug that into the cap as shown but then you have to run a 10g minimum wire from the firewall bulkhead to the distributor. With a truck that had points I've read that people say you can push the connector for the power wire for the distributor out of the firewall bulkhead because the feed wire for a point distributor only feeds if I remember 5-9v or something. So you have you have to pull this wire out and replace it with a proper wire to feed to the distributor. Its the wiring from the bulkhead connector to the distributor which still has me confused.