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I bought a coil from the FLAPS, it is not the Electrolock.

I will not cut the shielded cable and I believe I can make this coil work for now.

Any sources for a replacement Electrolock coil. I couldn't find one in my searching yesterday or today.

Is a coil rebuild-able?

my search turned up this from the vcca forum. It seems you can at least take one apart...

After reading some more I think installing a new coil in your old case would be the way to go if you're going for looks.

I did find one vendor that sells the EL coils. More than $250 for a coil!?!?

Wow.

I modified the 12V coil that I got from my local FLAPs to look like an Electrolock coil. I took a piece of exhaust tubing about 2" in diameter and 3/4" long. drilled and filed to create electrolock cap slots. Ground out inner bottom edge of tubing to fit over bottom (top of Electrolock) of coil and epoxied in place. Snaked and glued positive terminal wire up the backside of the coil where it would not show into the Electrolock cap. Looks and works well and will fool most.

No such thing as a coil case. The electrolock cap fits on the top side of the coil itself. The OEM coil (in '38 anyway) had the fastening mechanism built into the coil. Replacement coils came with a bracket that screwed onto the top of the coil for the electrolock cap to fasten to. I spent a lot of time on ebay buying aftermarket electrolock coils when they became available and were affordable. I have three or four spares in my archive. The best advise I can give the OP is to watch ebay at least once a week and start hitting swap meets. No one I'm aware of repops those coils. As noted above those who have some in stock are really proud of them. Short term you can make any 6v coil work but it won't look right to those who know what they are supposed to look like.
All you have is the strap that holds the coil to the side cover.
How to remove the cap and showing the replacement coil bracket.
BTW I've not found anyone selling the special tool for removing the cap. It takes a very thin but stiff blade to fit between the coil & cap. You can save yourself some future headaches by using a dremel tool and grinding the locking tab off of the inside of the electrolock cap so that any time in the future that you need to remove it all you do is twist it off, you don't have to mess with trying to get to the locking tab. I destroyed my OEM coil trying to get the cap off.

Found this on ebay. Should work just fine. Some rattle can black will fix the color.

Thank you for the link, Tiny.

Do coils go bad?

I have the original out of the truck and the cap came off easy enough.