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The answers to your questions. I tested the caps on the Strobo-Scope. All coils/caps tested fine and with no leakage. I didn't brush the contacts, but I sanded them with contacts closed, grit up and then grit down, so they'd make a flat contact and then polished with 1000 grit, then re-aligned them ...

After several hours of fine tuning, torturing, tweaking, folding, spindling, and mutilating... the coils are now mostly behaving. I ended up with the gap on this coil at around .021. I suspect if it was put into an ECCT, that it would show the firing timing to be off from the others by a few degrees...

Moxie - thank you for the feedback. I'll give the coil a good cleaning. I've gone down the road of increasing tension on both springs and then dialing the coil in on the Strobo-scope...but I'm a newbie and will give it another try or two, or three and report back. Here's a post-drive photo from today.

Moxie - thank you for jumping in.

The image you shared is what I've been using to adjust the cushion spring tension and gaps.

Vern, Thank you for the response. #1 coil is showing the double spark in the Strobo-scope tester. Using that, I was able to get the others dialed in. I've tried all of the 'normal' adjustments and then some. Changing the tension on the cushion spring, tweaking the upper bridge a bit to change the op...

Hello all, Using my dad's Model T account as he passed away last year, leaving behind Model T's & A's ranging from a frame and parts in a field, to running '14 speedster, '24 Tourer, '26 Runabout, '29 Cabriolet (which everyone wants, but don't ask), '30 Coupe, another mostly there '30-31 coupe, pick...