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Originally Posted by lorenr
I've been relying on MSD ignition products for over 30 years. Recently I had an issue that surprised me. It was two bad coils.
The item is: MSD Ignition 82073 - MSD Blaster SS Coils.
In all my years I cannot remember an ignition coil going bad. Decided to use the MSD 6 ignition box with the above coil on my Tournament Ski boat. Ford 351 W with Edelbrock intake and 1850 Holley. Worked fine for 18 years. Coil went bad and replaced with same. It has now lasted 5 hours. replaced same coil again.
Checked wiring again and again. Pretty simple install. I've used three MSD 6 boxes I've kept over the years. They seem to be fine.
With the bad coils, I did get a spark to the plugs, but would not start the motor. Just before it quit completely it would run fine for a minute or two.
What am I missing? Is this common?
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Good morning to all,
Over the years I had 2 MSD #8261 coils go bad on me.
One after two or three weekends racing, the other right out of the box. When we had our dyno , we had the standard #8201 and I wanted to have both kinds of coils to see the difference between the two (#8261) and in case a customer was using something different and we could switch it. After one pull the engine wouldn't start - just crank. We switched back to the #8201 - engine starts right up! we call MSD and tell them what happened and there're reply was "gee that's too bad, sorry" .then being told there was nothing they could do, because there was NO RETURNS on electrical parts , left me holding the bag on a $200.00 dollar coil.
Then , since I didn't learn my lesson yet I purchased a MSD 8A that failed after two or three runs. That turned into another Cluster as well.
So, I'm to guess that its nothing you did to cause the problem , just crappy quality control.
P.S. I finally got the 8A box repaired, and threw away two #8261 coils that were bad. And if anyone from MSD would like to reimburse me for those two coils , that would be nice , but I won't be holding my breath.