D-150 225 slant six NO SPARK

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Aaron83d-150

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My d-150 has no spark I put in points, cap, rotor, wires, coil, ballast resister. And it fired right up and ran. Then the ballast resister started smoking and stopped working and the coil died, what would cause this to happen
 

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My d-150 has no spark I put in points, cap, rotor, wires, coil, ballast resister. And it fired right up and ran. Then the ballast resister started smoking and stopped working and the coil died, what would cause this to happen
Without seeing the truck or knowing any more information I would say that since the ballast resistor went
Tango Uniform it took the Ignition Control Box with it.

It's mounted to the inner fender or the firewall in most cases and has a triangle-ish shaped connector with 7 wires in it.
 
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Aaron83d-150

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I don’t know if it has it. Someone cut out all the electronic ignition and put points back in it.
 

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switching to points might have been someones solution to lean burn ignition. electronic ignition would be better. it does sounds like the ballast resister failed. if it failed again i would definitely be looking for a cause but if it is fine it might have just been a faulty ballast resister.
 

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Did you replace the condensor along with the points?
 
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