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Still no sign of the electronic ignition. I shot off an email 5 days ago to see if its been shipped or any tracking or anything and havnt gotten a reply on that either. Starting to think i need to order from someone else....
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RUSH55
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Who did you order it through?
Man, there’s no reason for anything to take 5 days or longer to ship!
Man, there’s no reason for anything to take 5 days or longer to ship!
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JT outfitters - i ordered on thursday last week, but emailed 5 days ago... It's that Mels kit - it says in stock so im not sure.
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Call Em 
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Time zone differences make that a little tough lol by the time i get home from work its 930pm there, and mornings I am terrible at and dont wake up good, thats why I shot off an email. I keep checking my mailbox just in case but I am starting to be worried about it.Call Em
RUSH55
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Mels, haven’t heard that one in a minute.
PabloCruise
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It's a sign...
RUSH55
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Here’s your sign…
PabloCruise
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Yep!
A sign the Land Cruiser gods want you to finger out what is going on w/ your ignition!
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I read a bunch of stuff that its reboxed pertronix from this page so i figured it was safe lol that and it's a site vendor. So far the best site vendor has been gamiviti. That dude emails back QUICK.
Its a sign from the LC gods to throw away the stock distributor and carb and spring for the EFI kit. Lol
Once again, EFI does the fuel.
You're having ignition problems.
If you can't make a system work which has one power wire and one ground, how is adding the complexity of a hundred powers, and a hundred grounds supposed to fix things? Are you suddenly going to be more willing to check a ground connection because there's dozens of them vs just one?
Is that ground point that doesn't work now, suddenly going to not have paint on it because you bought a fuel injection system?
Nothing about this makes any logical sense. You owe it to yourself to proceed based on the facts alone.
Doagnose it from a factual standpoint.
If there's power at the coil, power at the points, good coil, good condenser and still lousy spark then you've got a bad ground.
Check the coil by shorting the +to ground, see if it sparks.
Check the condenser by charging it up and zapping your kid.
Check the wires with a DVOM.
This is as simple as it gets and if you're unwilling or can't diagnose this, then computerized fuel management is the wrong answer for you.
Computerized systems are orders of magnitude more complicated than this.
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The efi kit replaces the distributor as well. Youre thinking of the TBI kit. They put a whole new distributor, with ecu, as well as put TBI on.
As i had mentioned prior, based on all the things ive checked the points are the issue and nobody local to me has them because I live rural. Since I have to pay $60 and wait for a set of points to be shipped in, it made more sense to buy the Mels kit at 100$ and never have to do worry about points again. The choice was very obvious - except now I have a bad set of points, no electronic ignition kit, and 100$ missing. Lol
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Cancelled it. Ordered from a different store, and its already got tracking and been picked up in less than 12 hours. Hopefully early next week she will be rollin with the set of fresh new tires and everything.
i will let yall know on wednesday when it arrives I suppose.
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+ HI PERFORMANCE 60,000 Volt Coil + 8mm Silicone USA Spark Plug Wires. 1968-1987 TOYOTA LAND CRUISER I6 3.9L + 4.2L. - CRT HI PERFORMANCE 60,000 Volt Ignition Coil + Aluminum mounting bracket. - All connecting pigtails.
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i will let yall know on wednesday when it arrives I suppose.
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HEI kit installed - and it runs again. Timing is WAY OFF because I didnt install the distributor correctly - just wanted it in to make sure it worked. Fires up and revs up, but where the timing would have cylinder 1 stump on the cap at the 12 o clock position while looking at the engine from the radiator side - mines more in the middle of 1 and 2 and it still ran. just need to unbolt it, pop it up and time it right and that will be that. Then clean up the wiring and stuff. Already runs better than it ever did and with how out of wack I have the distributor I am excited to get it corrected, just ran outta time today. I only get a two hour window each day lol
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Alrighty. Borrowed a timing light from a coworker. set the timing and got it stabbed in there right and MAN it runs good. Drove it around the building and tomorrow I will get the new tires put on now that it will drive on/off the lift.
