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07-06-2016, 11:38 AM | #41 | |
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07-07-2016, 06:29 AM | #42 |
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Re: Car died will not start
This has been an interesting post. I started the car several times and it seems fine and went for a few short trips. As you know these cars like to be started a certain way hot & cold I might have been anxious and screwed up the sequence when doing my test starts after replacing the condenser. As far as the distributor it takes the modern style points & condenser, not sure if the distributor itself is different so I did not pull it apart and look for that wire that was mentioned. I'm sure I will have updates - thanks
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07-07-2016, 07:27 AM | #43 |
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Look at your first picture where the cloth wire terminal is very close to the metal body. That looks like a problem. In fact it looks like a burn spot from arcing.
I only use the original top plate and points, and like them. |
07-07-2016, 07:48 AM | #44 |
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Good eye Tom. I see a tiny blob of metal on the distributor housing next to the pigtail flag.
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07-07-2016, 08:55 AM | #45 |
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I took a close up and can't see an issue, am I missing something?
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07-07-2016, 09:52 AM | #46 |
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07-07-2016, 11:24 AM | #47 |
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I think Larry's right, but now I see something else in this last picture.
Where are your 4 cam lobes? It must be the camera angle, but it sure doesn't look like much of a lobe. |
07-07-2016, 12:21 PM | #48 |
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Loosen the cable that screws into the distributor, by 1/4 turn, in case it's screwed in too far & shorting out, when it expands with heat. Minerva did that once, only after she was QUITE warm.
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07-07-2016, 01:14 PM | #49 |
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Re: Car died will not start
Try moving your spark lever and checking your volts at the open points. If the volts changed your lower plate wire's probably shorting.
While you're at the distributor, take out the condenser and check your voltage at the points again. If your reading batt voltage without the condenser and .68v with it installed, then your condenser is shorting. |
07-07-2016, 01:32 PM | #50 |
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Certain vintage "Modern Points" did not require a wire from plate to plate in the distributor. They used a springy metal connector instead and these sometimes fail and are hard to trouble shoot.
You said you had no "Plate to Plate Wire" so see if you have a springy metal that has gotten old and fails to make contact. |
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07-19-2016, 01:31 PM | #52 |
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I bought a heat shield for the distributor not knowing how it mounted and found out you can't use it when you have a manifold heater installed
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