Update on my Ignition Module failure!

[WFO]

Deleted because somehow this ended up a double post.

 

[Goldie Driver]

Put a points distributor in it. That will run forever. You'll need to adjust them once in awhile though.

LOL- EMP prof, too. Can't say that about my HEI. Can you still buy dwell meters, though ?

 

[YakkoWarner]

LOL- EMP prof, too. Can't say that about my HEI. Can you still buy dwell meters, though ?

I grabbed an old Sears tach/dwell/voltage tester from a thrift store last year for the whopping sum of $4.00. Some wires were chewed up but new wire and clips on the end and it works great.

 

[Matt69olds]

People think I'm nuts for this but a solid source for real GM parts is the boneyard. I have pulled modules from parts cars and gotten a long life from them.

Nope, you’re not nuts!!! I do the same thing. Unfortunately, my supply has almost vanished, and they aren’t in salvage yards anymore.

I’d rather have a good used 20 year old Delco module than the crap they are selling at the stores today.

 

[cadillac_al]

I was lucky to buy a few $50 Skip White distributors before he quit selling them. They are over 10 years old now and still work great. I would still try some different chinese distributors that are on the market if I needed one.

 

[Gpaw44]

It had been mentioned several time in this thread that the supply of old parts is about depleted! Do you remember the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS—known nationwide as “Cash for Clunkers”—did to 677,081 vehicles in the summer of 2009? Here is where we lost alot of good parts to the crushers.
Remember when Chrysler filed for bankruptcy on April 30, 2009, with General Motors filing a month later. This is about the time Auto makers begin outsourcing parts to foreign countries for chaper labor hoping for higher profits. So if you are buying AC Delco and other brand names you are buying a name but the part is being made in a foreign country and in most cases the quality of the parts is lnot the same as the original part
I was lucky today and caught a machine shop and parts store open today. It is owned and operated by a genleman that is 86 years old. He is also where I got the History lesson above!
After visiting with him for some time this afternoon he did let me leave with a GM distributor that must have been made back in the 80s on a trail bases! He just asked it worked come back with 50 dollars. It was not all original but close! The AC Delco module it had been replaced by a Standard module. I did get it in this evening and it started right up.
So instead of buying new, I am now a member of the "Old Parts Hustlers" on this forum.

 

[Ricko1966]

GM to stay price competitive offers 3 tiers of parts now,blue which is supposed to be original quality,gold which is ,meh user grade, and their bottom tier silver which is the same off shore junk parts everyone else is using. Original quality is supposed to be good for 100,000 miles,manufacturers like GM cannot afford to have a bunch of broken down cars and warranty claims from low quality parts,it will affect sales and profits too badly.Its a shame that everyone doesn't understand all parts are not created equal. People's O.E GM fuel pump fails at 150,000 miles and over the next 6 years they replace the pump 3 times with aftermarket pumps that don't last,and then say Chevrolets etc have junk fuel pumps. No cheap parts are not usually good parts.

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