Gold Box components?

[Vought]

Hi:

I've searched and can't seem to find anyone who has gotten curious and disassembled their Holley gold box. I did; removed all the potting material and cleaned up the board and found a failing component that's either an inductor or resistor; the box hadn't failed but was clearly on the way out.

I'm looking for hints as to what the component might be; I could buy a pertronix ignitor and flamethrower, but I'd like to repair the gold box if at all possible.

Does anyone have a component breakdown or picture of the gold box board in good shape? I've included a picture of the component with its location on the board for reference.

Thanks!

 

[Robert Kenney]

hi:

I've searched and can't seem to find anyone who has gotten curious and disassembled their Holley gold box. I did; removed all the potting material and cleaned up the board and found a failing component that's either an inductor or resistor; the box hadn't failed but was clearly on the way out.

I'm looking for hints as to what the component might be; I could buy a pertronix ignitor and flamethrower, but I'd like to repair the gold box if at all possible.

Does anyone have a component breakdown or picture of the gold box board in good shape? I've included a picture of the component with its location on the board for reference.

Thanks!View attachment 28838

That's a wire wound resistor. Remove it and read it's resistance with a vom. Remember you will need a power capacity for it. On a wwr you will need to pick a resistor wattage and the package size is a big factor in wattage. That looks like a 1watt so up size it .

 

[Vought]

that's a wire wound resistor. Remove it and read it's resistance with a vom. Remember you will need a power capacity for it. On a wwr you will need to pick a resistor wattage and the package size is a big factor in wattage. That looks like a 1watt so up size it .

My sincere thanks. It's the same conclusion I came to independently and I'm lucky enough to live in the bay area for this instance, since you can't swing a cat without hitting several electronic component outlets.

The gold box hadn't actually failed yet, so I'm going to hook up the multimeter tomorrow and see what the resistance is.

Thanks again, Robert.

 

[Vought]

Turns out to be (probably) a 1w, .5ohm resistor. Going to try a 2w in its place and add a heat sink.

 

[mallen]

hi:

I've searched and can't seem to find anyone who has gotten curious and disassembled their Holley gold box. I did; removed all the potting material and cleaned up the board and found a failing component that's either an inductor or resistor; the box hadn't failed but was clearly on the way out.

I'm looking for hints as to what the component might be; I could buy a pertronix ignitor and flamethrower, but I'd like to repair the gold box if at all possible.

Does anyone have a component breakdown or picture of the gold box board in good shape? I've included a picture of the component with its location on the board for reference.

Thanks!View attachment 28838

Keep googling. I recall somewhere someone wrote about fixing a burned resistor on a gold box. The resistor that burns if you leave the ignition on. I'm not sure where I saw it though.

 

[Mark Pietz]

keep googling. I recall somewhere someone wrote about fixing a burned resistor on a gold box. The resistor that burns if you leave the ignition on. I'm not sure where I saw it though.

The prestolite distributors used 1979-80 were also prone to failure by some discrete component (I believe it, too, was a resistor). That's why I went pertronix about 20 years ago on a previous Scout...at the time pertronix was around $70 and a "rebuilt" prestolite module was almost two bills. I recall seeing a post about how to fix that one, as well, but can't recall what forum.