Re: Can't seem to find the problem
These are my thoughts on the previous posts:
He had original points and it was actually my distributer. I must not have gotten the point post screw tight. My bad. As you all know, closed up points can act like a bad coil which did confuse me yesterday morning until I found it.
Yes, initially he did have a load of alcohol gas which again clouded the issue. I added a generous amount of MMO to eliminate that problem.
Yes, I did make sure the ignition cable was not screwed in to far.
I believe you should put the ballast resistor on the feed side of the coil. The coil is 6v so you would want it operating that way. 6v will go to the points. My thoughts.
Another thing I found initially was a cracked distributer body and the cap didn't look very good where it contacted the rotor. I kept thinking I had found the problem but it would come back after 3 miles.
Still the bottom line was the bad coil on Monday with the closed points causing me a restless night. LOL
Thanks again for the help. -- John
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