Glad to hear that everything is back to normal. I guess now we all have to
deal with you harping about how the 93 dak is the best one ever built again,
right? Just kidding. :)
--Aaron--
95 DSRC 4x4 V6
www.geocities.com/adakota4x4_95/
>From: "Kyle Kozubal" <grndak4x4@home.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
>Subject: DML: DAK IS BACK!
>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:50:00 -0600
>
>Well I picked my truck up tonight from the shop and drove it all night
>long.
>I missed it so!! It runs great and I think it is fixed! Never guess what
>was
>causing it.............frigin MSD Ignition! The mechanic does local circle
>track racing and also owns a 95 Dakota with 200,000 miles on it. He said he
>once hooked up a MSD ignition to a 440 engine and it ate the dist caps up
>in
>500-750 miles. He said he looked at my truck's dist cap and it was
>practically the same size used on his 440. He said after having a nasty
>bucking and stumbling problem(exactly what I was having!) on his 440 he
>called MSD and they told him not to use it on his 440 due to the small
>internal space within the dist cap. He said the MSD ignition was acually
>making many cylinders fire at one due to the high spark voltage and was
>causing a rich condition on his plugs(also what I had!). He also told me
>not
>to buy anything other than MSD's ditital ignition boxes, if you can afford
>them that is. Otherwise, for diagnosing purposes and overall reliability,
>he
>said he would never recommend one to a vehicle which is a daily driver. He
>said he once bought the normal MSD 6 Series and had it die on him 8 times
>before he finally threw it away. MSD couldnt even tell him why they kept
>buring up. He couldnt even get any spark on the truck for an entire day. He
>put a new cap on, which he said was in POOR shape and also put in some
>plugs, Autolites of course. I told him the cap/rotor/plugs werent even in
>there for 1,000 miles. He said they showed 10,000 miles of wear, and showed
>the parts to me. I have changed many many dist caps/rotors on my truck
>since
>having the MSD ignition on it, almost for 2 years now. I have never seem a
>cap/rotor eaten up like these parts were. I mean they were toasted. I
>completely gutted out the MSD ignition(did a nice clean job too!) and wired
>back in the stock coil connector and the truck ran great. He also said
>after
>taking the MSD box out, rewiring the coil connector, and resetting the
>battery...........the truck went into closed loop mode, where as before it
>was constantly in open loop. He doubled checked all the main startup mode
>sensors for possibly ground problems, but everything was fine. Interested
>isnt it? He only charged me $75, which wasnt bad for another full
>diagnostic
>computer scan(3 times actually), the parts, and about 5 hours worth of
>labor. Well the original MSD Offroad unit failed on me last May and looks
>like I wont ever use an MSD Ignition ever again. I still do love their plug
>wires though! Anybody wanna buy a MSD 6-Offroad Ignition(tons of unused MSD
>wiring also), MSD RFI Noise Filter and the MSD Universal Wiring Harness????
>Kyle
>93 Dakota 4x4 V6
>
>
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