[W126 Coupe] SEC Starting Failure After a Massive Downpour

[a figment of the imagination]

Hi!

I went to the salvage yard today and picked up a used
coil off a 1990 560 SEC.  However, this coil is not
the cylindrical type that goes on 380 SECs.  Does
anyone know if it will really matter?

I was reading the service manual and it said at the
bottom: "Never replace ignition coil by one the
ignition coils used up to now".  

Well, this is really confusing because I don't know
what year the manual was made and the manual covers a
range of W126 bodies from '82 to 91+, so what the heck
kind of message is this?  

coils are coils?  beyond the number of windings and
the strength of the induction current, can MBZ really
have made a big change between earlier model SECs and
later models?  obviously, not all coils are the same
but to simply send current to the dizzy cap, can there
really be that much of a "dangerous/damage-prone"
difference?


-fig

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