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First Aid For Flivvers

By William B. Stafford

In our May/June 1981 issue of G.E.M., we featured an article called "Igniting the Charge" written by William B. Stafford of 130 Old Oaken Bucket Road, Scituate, MA 02066. The author wrote to tell us that he had received a lot of response from this article and that our readers might enjoy reading "FIRST AID FOR FLIVVERS," an article he had originally written for his Model "T" Ford Club publication some years ago.

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One of the major causes of rough running engines is poor spark coils. If a coil is in good working order and properly adjusted, it should give satisfactory performance for many thousands of miles with little or no attention.

Most of the old coils I tested were found to be in fairly good mechanical condition. A good cleaning, sanding and repair of the wooden box, a coa...

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