PAIN?......I Got Pain
I wasn't going to post my problem because I have total faith in the friend that's helping me. I mentioned part of it a while back, and actually "thought" we had found and fixed it, but alas, no such luck. I'm really not looking for any help (although it never hurts) on this as it is a REAL stumper and my guy is VERY good.
Since you guys were sharing your "pain" I figured, what the hell, here's mine.
Last year on occaision when I put the key in the ignition, I would turn to on and have nothing, no gauges, no starter, nothing. I would wiggle the wires behind the ignition switch and I'd get power, start the car and drive it with no problems. After looking at the fuses and the wiring toilet under the dash, I asked a friend and coworker if he'd be interested in rewiring my 62 as I'm at a complete loss when it comes to electricity. He accepted the challenge and last November I drove it to his garage and the wiring started. We removed EVERY SINGLE wire from the car and they were replaced with a brand new 18 circuit Painless wiring harness. EVERY terminal, connector, head and tail light pigtail was put in new.
The day came to test everything and everything worked perfectly, not a glitch anywhere. I was finally going to have a dependable (electric) classic car. The engine, drive line has been done to my specs and runs VERY well.
I drove the car to the local cruise nights for about two weeks when one night, as I was driving along, second gear, it died, like someone turned the key off. I had all gauges and cranking power but no spark. In total disbelief, I called my friend and he was shocked as well, told me what to check and call him back if it didn't start. I checked the obvious and found nothing loose or not connected. I hit the key again and it fired and ran the rest of the night, and about four or five more times in the next two weeks.
Then it started happening again, more frequently, driving along and it would lose spark, let it sit and it would fire and run. Not settling for anything less than perfect, my friend began to trouble shoot and we found nothing. I have a complete MSD ignition system so, we decided to call them and ask them for some pointers. As we're told, a coil can go bad and come back to life again as can a magnetic pickup in the distributer, but the 6AL box, will not, if it goes bad, that's it, the car will not run, period.
The MSD tech. gave us a couple things to try and test which we did, and it "appeared" that there may be a problem with the 6AL box. So, out it came, shipped it back to Texas and three weeks later it came back with a paper saying they really found nothing wrong, but replaced a couple final transistors seeing as how they had it. It was bench tested and was fine. Put it back in, the car ran for one week and died. I have since replaced the MSD Blaster coil, the magnetic pickup and the ignition switch.
And guess what? IT STILL DIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EVERYTHING, is new, there's nothing left, yet, I'm right where I was the very first time it died back in April. So far, it's died about ten or more times, and with all but one time, I was able to get it started and drive it home. Once it came home on the flatbed.
So you see my brothers & sisters, with Carlisle coming up, and not being able to attend any of the nightly cruises, or just getting in it to take a drive after all this work, is truely PAIN.
I don't even feel any better after posting this, because it's been eating me up day and night since April.
My friend had a wedding this weekend, but will be here after work every day this week, and vows if he has to work day and night this coming weekend, he will find it. This guy graduated top of his class from Wyoming Tecnical Institute, and between working with him five days a week, hanging out with him in his garage after work, I've seen him fix everything thrown at him. He's now taking it personally because he did the initial rewire, so I'm lucky in that respect.
Chris, Bro, you KNOW I wish you a speedy remedy and a trouble free trip to BG, maybe next year for me, right now, I just wanna go around the block with no fear.
Ken ,your day will come .I promise.There, feel better?:L 
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