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Mart · 12-22-2023, 07:32 AM

While respecting your desire to keep all original, the overriding aim is to fix the problem. If you try the crab type cap and rotor and no conduits and it is then perfectly ok, you can then have more confidence when troubleshooting. You can then try and reintroduce the original parts step by step until the problem comes back. the last thing you replaced will be the problem item.

Changing the cap and leads to the crab type will be a valuable troubleshooting tool.

Borrowing a good running distributor from someone will also prove something.

Could you be suffering from burned valves on the cylinders concerned? How about a bad condenser? (not cylinder specific, I guess).

Temporarily changing away from stock as a diagnostic tool is not a bad thing.

I await with interest what you find.

Mart.

12-22-2023, 07:32 AM	#11
Mart Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Solihull, England. Posts: 9,240	Re: 47 V8 ignition mystery While respecting your desire to keep all original, the overriding aim is to fix the problem. If you try the crab type cap and rotor and no conduits and it is then perfectly ok, you can then have more confidence when troubleshooting. You can then try and reintroduce the original parts step by step until the problem comes back. the last thing you replaced will be the problem item. Changing the cap and leads to the crab type will be a valuable troubleshooting tool. Borrowing a good running distributor from someone will also prove something. Could you be suffering from burned valves on the cylinders concerned? How about a bad condenser? (not cylinder specific, I guess). Temporarily changing away from stock as a diagnostic tool is not a bad thing. I await with interest what you find. Mart.