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[FFredo]

First, Thank You everyone for your help with my 59 apache. I got all of the front sheet metal on and everything fits.
Last week I replaced the after market aluminum intake with a cast iron SBC intake. Yesterday was going to be the day I drove my truck again. However two things have gone wrong. First I seemed to have lost the starter solenoid function. Also I do not have any power to the coil. Checking the ballast resistor shows it to be bad too. It took restraint of the ighest degree to not take a cutting torch to my truck just to show it who's boss. Lucky for me about the time I was looking for my cutting torch the wife called me into dinner.