Originally Posted by tman
Just for sheets and grins, check for loose wire/terminal to ballast resistor. For me, car would start, then die while idling. Jiggled the wires to ballast and it was loose from inside the crimped spade.


Yeap: ballast coil wires usually Nichrome (soild & very hard) & just crimped to softer brass wire terminals. Not an ideal electrical connection. Plus with the ceramic filler, really can't see condition. That's why spares are always needed.