The "Throw Away 318"

barbee6043 said
Some states are not anal. Many do not smog test. Many that have so called state safety inspections check just lights, wipers, am horn!!
Until I restored just a few years back, I drove a variety of Dusters, anywhere from 60 to 120 mi per day just going to a job. Love:lol:d every mile and seldom any problems, points and all!

Well maintained and you seldom have problems. The points are a "wear item" so need fairly regular attention. If you have a Concours show piece, then keep it as it came off the factory floor. But then you do not drive it 100 miles per day. Those other well restored vehicles I would be inclined to install an electronic ignition. You can get a Pertronix that is almost invisible or use the Chrysler parts from a picknpull. The Chrysler system gave the least problems of them all. The GM main problem was the wires flexing going to the pickup plate that flexed as the vaccum advance operated. Fords main problem was the box on the inner fender. Can not understand why that was such a piece of crap, being mounted on the inner fender away from engine heat. The Mopar mounted on the firewall at the back of the engine. Very occasionally a pickup or module would fail.
If you check the wiring diagrams you will notice a similarity. You can get away with changing to another system module. I had a Ford that kept giving trouble with the module and it would quit (found on road dead. I wired it to run on a GM HEI module pulled out at a picknpull. I could have used a Mopar module just as easily. Eventually it would not start as the ring gear was worn. The 302 crankshaft had about 3/16 inch end play. Got a 351W in parts, put it together and had no more troubles with it. When the heater core failed and I pretty much had to remove the dash for access, I found paper matches from LA, NYC and Florida. It had almost 300,000 miles on it.