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Old 10-09-2020, 07:33 PM   #4
aermotor
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Default Re: engine won't run

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Originally Posted by Big hammer View Post
A guess, would a weak spark only run with starter fluid? My dad and I worked at starting a car one winter, blew the muffler, it coughed back through the carburetor setting dads hair on fire! Dad had it towed to a shop and they did a tune up, plugs, points, rotor.
Crossed my mind but I am getting a nice blue/white spark from each spark plug. BTW, This exact same problem existed when I was running a Mallory centrifugal distributor, which I replaced with original system thinking I had a problem with the centrifugal advance. Two good different systems and same problem, I guess I better look deeper into a fuel problem.

Last edited by aermotor; 10-09-2020 at 07:53 PM. Reason: extra info
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