Coil placement for 42-48 Flathead

[Stew Robertson]

If you are going to do it do it right
when you spend all the time and money on a restoration and make it it look so good
why not do it right
Just my opinion and you can shoot me down any time at all
of the carriers that I have done including the later T16 they all had the helmet style ditributor
If someone has an original carrier with claw style caps I would like to know for my own information
Stew

[Maurice Donckers]

O my carrier I have the hemet style distributor, with a new original tar filled coil , and ballast resistor . It works fine till now .(4Years)
on my Fordson WOT 2 I have placed a ww2 ribbed armored vehicle coil, because ordinary 12v coils can`t cope with it .
In my F15A I mounted a coil on the original position , with the bracket which is shown in the first picture . problem was when switched off would`t restart , or by tow start run very erratic , found out heat from flathead would rise up into coil and it would refuse , moved it next to the shroud , and problem solved . So be careful on mounting it on top of the flathead.

[Perry Kitson]

No need for apologies Lynn. At the time I was quite amazed that my father new about the distributor swap problem on flatheads, and the engine rebuilder did not, and he specialized in Ford flatheads. A number of car guys I have talked to about the distributor troubles on Ford flatheads have told me that they have switched to electronic ignitions. Makes for virtually trouble free driving, which is what the hobby is about.

Perry