and I'm not the only one who got one chromed damaged... a friend of mine too. Not saying they are junk really, but, maybe just bad luck with these ?

I also had an orange box fail on my '76 power wagon 440, watch out for those cheap Wells brand ones, not too good for electronic stuff either..

-Jimbo

The box may be OK, it could be the coil or intermittent ballast resistor.

If the box was bad the pickup is right behind it seen it a dozen times. Trash the mopar get a pertronix cheaper and far more reliable
I rather run points then Mopar ignition I keep them on the car for spare ignition
The most reliable of electronic boxes is black box 4 pin factory ecu and where they came up with that rev limit is ?? me as I have in the past went right to 6500 with a stock box

Interesting...I keep hearing about these MP orange boxes always failing left and right but I have run them for 15 or more years and never had one fail.