points and condenser

and the most reliable brand is???? thanks

i have always liked blue streak parts., ecklin i avoided.

Anymore there may not be many choices ? Many come from the same place. Last ones I used and still have some in stock were from Mexico.
Used to be blue streak and NAPA had a better reputation for quality.

I second Blue Streak. Has been good with points and condenser.

(quoted from post at 12:12:11 09/13/23) Anymore there may not be many choices ? Many come from the same place. Last ones I used and still have some in stock were from Mexico.
Used to be blue streak and NAPA had a better reputation for quality.

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lue Streak is Standard Motor Products and Napa is Echlin. Same two for the last 100 years.

I like Blue Streak. I DO NOT like the cheaper ones sold at TSC or Rural King

John T

Please measure the primary current especially if someone covered it to 12 volts.
The wrong ballast will cause all points to fail.

Primary current should be very close to 4 amps.

I have had good luck with Blue Streak

thanks for all the input I will try to search out Blue Streak here in Northern Ont.

I don't know who makes them but I've had the spring, band, or what ever its called on the points break two different times now on my Farmall C. Once this spring while I was driving it and about 5 years ago while it was parked over night after using it. They both came from Steiner.

Good, quality points are STANDARD IGNITION / BLUE STREAK, one and the same. On my FORD TRACTORS, I only use those TISCO, or CNH. Avoid others. NAPA usually supplies SI/BS, p/n FD-6769X for the Ford Front Mount Distributor and p/n FD-8081 for the Angle (SIDE) Mount Distributors. ECHLIN, p/n CS-35, used to be a reliable product but my testing shows now they can't be gapped right. The TISCO kit contains the condenser, and a reusable, handy .015 Feeler Gage for setting point gap with. 25 years ago the TISCO FORD FRONT MT kit used to also include the rotor, but no longer do. Condensers are a crap shoot but usual reliable suppliers are best. A condeser is really just a capacitor. Yes, they can go bad, but I hear many guys state they have a bad condenser but never have any data to back that up; they can only state opinions, not facts. It takes a special test machine to verify a condenser. If anyone recalls the old days of cathode-ray TV sets, there were tube testing machines at your local drug stores and hardware stores where you could bring in your TV and radio tubes and capacitors to test. Yes, the machines had a function to test a capacitor. You could also buy a separate test machine from places like HEATHKIT to test too. May be able to get an old one on ebay. FACT #1: 99.98% of all non-starting cars, trucks, and tractors are due to incorrect wiring, regardless if 6V POS GRN or 12V NEG GRN. Many do not understand the 6V/POS GRN system and when problems arise, usually blame it on the system and not the true root cause - they've wired something wrong. The FORD Front Mount Distributor is the 2nd most misunderstood function on older vehicles before 1950. The unit must be tuned up on your bench with timing set a specific way - no timing ight used. Testing is verified before unit is mounted and then it can only be set one certain way. If you get it off 180 DEG, you will destroy the aluminum base the moment power is applied. This is the usual root cause problem. Failure to launch then results in falsely assuming you then need to switch to 12V, or, ye gads, EI. As the late Sparkie Meister Dell used to say, ...if it won't start on 6V, what makes you think it will on 12V??? Always verify wiring using a proven schematic like from an I&T Service Manual B4 applying power. Don't assume and don't take shortcuts.

TUBE TEST MACHINE, from the 1960's:


Tim Daley (MI)

standard,blue streak are fine.
google mcdonald carbuerter and ignition. he sold me made in usa points and condenser for my racine 411

i missed the main 1. they stock parts for distributers too standard magnito phone 800 624 6386

Another vote for Blue Streak. Stay away from their 'T' series, they are their value line and you can visibly see the difference between the two. The 'T' series comes in a white box, the good ones come in a blue box. I get mine from O'reilly auto parts, but I provide the part number for them since they cannot look then up for tractors

I don't think anyone makes good points anymore. They are all plated. Good points were made with chunks of real tungsten or whatever it was. Points like this is are often found in old magnetos and should not be discarded. They can be refaced many times with a dremmel.

Blue streak are sold right here at YT!!! joe
Blue Streak for Ford