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Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire?

Posted By: lrtexpress

Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/29/16 05:46 AM

Anyone have few original pictures, or confirm if all Hemi motors had a Red boot on the the coil wire connected to the distributor, or was this specific to certain years


Thx
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/29/16 03:44 PM

Here's a 71 survivor example, they were all the same, all 66-71 Street Hemis had them (only the date code changed on the wire). Most wires differed as well having white script rather than yellow. The boots were often so dark from aging that you can't see the red, they look nearly black until removed to you look at the inside.

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Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/29/16 03:48 PM

Here's a 70 dated example for a small block, it has the white script and a red (but very dark) boot

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Posted By: lrtexpress

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/29/16 04:49 PM

Was there Red boots on both ends of coil wire, or just distributor side?
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/29/16 04:59 PM

Just the dist side
Posted By: mccannix

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/29/16 11:14 PM

Here's a few I have.

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Posted By: mccannix

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/29/16 11:17 PM

The top one in the picture is from a seldom seen set of Chrysler Canada Ltd wires from the Windsor plant ( shown here with the more common US Chrysler Corporation wires )

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Posted By: Dixie

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/29/16 11:28 PM

What was the reasoning for the red boot?
Posted By: 71birdJ68

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 11/30/16 12:22 AM

Does anybody offer them?
Posted By: John_Kunkel

Re: Red Boot On Hemi Coil Wire? - 12/01/16 12:43 AM

Originally Posted By Dixie
What was the reasoning for the red boot?


So the production line guys would know which end of the wire goes to the distributor cap. There's a difference in the size of the coil tower and the cap tower, coil is larger.
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