The Ford Barn

oldscout · 02-16-2014, 07:20 PM

Went to look at a 28 Sport coupe 3 weeks ago, it had been sitting for a couple of months. The owners son got it running, and it sounded fine. A week later I go with the trailer to pick it up, and it will not start. When it finally would start, it smoked and ran terrible then died. We cleaned the points, cleaned the plugs, won't start. Pulled the coil wire, hot Spark, it was getting gas, still won't start. Checked the cap and rotor looked fine, left the plug wires off of the distributor with a gap of about 1/8 inch, starts up and runs ! Now there is spark jumping from the distributor to the wires, then the plugs would fire ! Unfortunately, the owners son got a picture of it, but I didn't. So we put in a new set of plugs and it started fine and ran great. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? None of us could believe it, and I still get a laugh when I think of it.

02-16-2014, 07:20 PM	#1
oldscout Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: NEPA Posts: 81	One for the books Went to look at a 28 Sport coupe 3 weeks ago, it had been sitting for a couple of months. The owners son got it running, and it sounded fine. A week later I go with the trailer to pick it up, and it will not start. When it finally would start, it smoked and ran terrible then died. We cleaned the points, cleaned the plugs, won't start. Pulled the coil wire, hot Spark, it was getting gas, still won't start. Checked the cap and rotor looked fine, left the plug wires off of the distributor with a gap of about 1/8 inch, starts up and runs ! Now there is spark jumping from the distributor to the wires, then the plugs would fire ! Unfortunately, the owners son got a picture of it, but I didn't. So we put in a new set of plugs and it started fine and ran great. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? None of us could believe it, and I still get a laugh when I think of it.