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steveh
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    Hey Buc,

    The black stuff is an insulating tar that prevents the coil from sending sparks to the mag plate. You’ll want to preserve as much of that as you can. It does look to me like perhaps the coil laminates have been removed at some point, but I don’t believe that little gap will hurt anything. I’m sure others will chime in…