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**Gregski** · 01-05-2019, 02:47 AM

I looked for YouTube video's for a while before I bought it, though most of them specialized in unboxing, ha ha, seems like the thing to do, where the guy holds the camera in one hand and tries to unbox the item with the other, you've seen them

and I also read a few forums and car magazine articles on this thing so I knew you had to lock out the distributor but for the life of me I could not find it in the MSD instructions, it seems important, and it seems like it's one of the first things you gotta do, finally when I found it it was buried literally half way in the manual, on page 8 and this is what it says:

Note: If you are programming the timing functions of the ignition, the distributor will require being locked-out.

[rant] Seriously? was my initial reaction. What do you mean if you are programming the timing functions? Why else would you spend more money and buy this PROGRAMMABLE unit. [/rant]

01-05-2019, 02:47 AM	#6
Gregski Post Whore Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 10,887	Re: MSD 6AL-2 PROGRAMMABLE Ignition Control in a Squarebody, say what? I looked for YouTube video's for a while before I bought it, though most of them specialized in unboxing, ha ha, seems like the thing to do, where the guy holds the camera in one hand and tries to unbox the item with the other, you've seen them and I also read a few forums and car magazine articles on this thing so I knew you had to lock out the distributor but for the life of me I could not find it in the MSD instructions, it seems important, and it seems like it's one of the first things you gotta do, finally when I found it it was buried literally half way in the manual, on page 8 and this is what it says: Note: If you are programming the timing functions of the ignition, the distributor will require being locked-out. [rant] Seriously? was my initial reaction. What do you mean if you are programming the timing functions? Why else would you spend more money and buy this PROGRAMMABLE unit. [/rant] Attached Images