Ive bought a MSD Distributor for my 93 302 stang. Put it in soon as the engine got hot or about 15 miles or so my car shut down. I smell a electrical burn. So after pulling the coil wire seein spark goin to the the Distributor i knew it were either the TFI module or the stator were bad swaped both nuffin. So i put old OE back in no probs and retuned the MSD and got another one.. Well put it in 30miles this time WTF same prob. Im runnin MSD blaster Coil and no Box any ideas? Or am i just unlucky gettin shit Distributors?

 

Whats the part number?

 

MSD 8456

 

Well its the correct dis. Strange........I would contact MSD 915-855-7123. I haven't heard of this happening before. Sorry I couldn't help.

 

Yea its weird i thought maybe sumin esle is wrong but sparks comin from coil and the Old ass Distributor works fine. Just hard to believe i got 2 bad ones in a row not impossible just not likey

 

good luck getting that thing fixed

 

Make sure all of your ground straps are intact-- body to motor straps.
Dont know if any has been removed or not but missing ones will kill alternators and ignitions HTH

 

There is a guy on here also "91notch" his name is Dave. He was burning through his every couple of weeks also. But not anywhere near as fast as you.

 

I called MSD they said they had a run of BAD pickups so i had them drop ship me one instead of just exchanging them from the same place i bought mine hopefully this one will be a good one.
BTW did 91notch ever get his fixed??

 

damn!!!!!!!! I had NEW one here with a bad pickup also. It needed to run so I went out and bought one rather than fight with MSD over a 20$ part. good to know though...