Re: Beware of high tech running amok

N8N wrote:
> On Feb 27, 10:11 am, Ray <ray@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> N8N wrote:
>>
>>>> I do chuckle, because "hi-tech" for some people might consist of
things
>>>> like self starters, radios, automatic transmissions, and disk brakes.
>>>> Anyone here want to go back to point ignitions? :)
>>> Hey!  You talking about me?
>>> nate
>>> (got rid of my last points distributor only a year or so ago; the '55
>>> is running a Chrysler "orange box" ignition now, although I do have a
>>> MSD 6AL that I might try to adapt...)
>> Well, would you consider points ignition on a new car to be a selling
>> feature?  It's simple, not high-tech....
>>
>> I sure wouldn't.  Owned one car with points.  That was enough.  Wife's
>> car - 1990 Beretta... original coils.  Never done anything but change
>> the plugs and wires.  That's much better than doing points every 3
months.
>>
>> Ray
> 
> forgot to mention, if you're changing points more often than every
> year or so, you probably have an out of spec condenser or ballast
> resistor.  Heck, my dad's old pickup didn't get a tuneup for years at
> a stretch, until it died on me one morning and I got PO'd and bought a
> junkyard HEI so I wouldn't get stuck again.
> 
> nate

ok, I guessed on the points servicing.  It was a winter car, so IIRC, 
checking the dwell and timing was done once in the fall.  What a POS it 
was - would run fine all summer if I ever needed it, but everytime it 
got cold, it would die - ever changed a starter at 30 below in a parking 
lot?  Freakin trans self destructed in -30, puking 2 gallons (we kept 
topping it up) of ATF on the 5 mile drive home, self shearing wheel 
studs, and so on.)

I don't like FWD, but the wife's Beretta never ever left me on the side 
of the road.

Ray