The Ford Barn

bogdonj · 10-06-2010, 01:05 PM

As many of you guys know that we have been having a weird issue with our rebuild engine after months of it running and driving perfectly. We had a thread called "Car wont start" and many of you guys gave us pointers and what not. Our engine had everything that we looked for. Good spark,good fuel,new condensor, coil,amp meter,points, retimed x8 ,distrutor cap and no air leaks. After weeks of putting on new parts and being baffled we called up the person who rebuild the engine and told us to bring it down. He had it for a few days and discovered something that he had never seen before causing this issue. This person deals with rebuilding model A's including parts and service of them and this was the first time he has seen this. I will give you guys a hint. The car wouldn't start with the spark plug leads on but as soon as he took them off the car started up and ran perfectly. I will post a video of it doing it and would like to see what you think caused this problem before I try to explain the cause. Lets see who gets it first!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NquVJtQCOo4 a better video to come to explain it even better.

On a side note...

Dixie Upholstery is the people we deal with for all our model a parts and service of them. I have to tell you they go above and beyond the call of duty to help us out and provide us with the information that we needed. We took our car there for him to help us and he had it back up and running. We also had a cracked water pump which he replaced free of charged as well has a Zenith Carb because as they put it "they stand behind what they sell" This speaks volumes to me. They showed us many cool tricks and took the time to explain everything. Nice to know we still have these types of businesses out there. If any of our CANADIAN as well as USA members need advice and to order parts I highly recommend emailing them or calling them for parts. Here is a website below. tell them we sent you.
http://dixies.ca/index.htm

Gene and Glen Franklan are the owners.

10-06-2010, 01:05 PM	#1
bogdonj Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Walkerton, Ont. Canada Posts: 623	The No Start Phenomenon Solved! As many of you guys know that we have been having a weird issue with our rebuild engine after months of it running and driving perfectly. We had a thread called "Car wont start" and many of you guys gave us pointers and what not. Our engine had everything that we looked for. Good spark,good fuel,new condensor, coil,amp meter,points, retimed x8 ,distrutor cap and no air leaks. After weeks of putting on new parts and being baffled we called up the person who rebuild the engine and told us to bring it down. He had it for a few days and discovered something that he had never seen before causing this issue. This person deals with rebuilding model A's including parts and service of them and this was the first time he has seen this. I will give you guys a hint. The car wouldn't start with the spark plug leads on but as soon as he took them off the car started up and ran perfectly. I will post a video of it doing it and would like to see what you think caused this problem before I try to explain the cause. Lets see who gets it first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NquVJtQCOo4 a better video to come to explain it even better. On a side note... Dixie Upholstery is the people we deal with for all our model a parts and service of them. I have to tell you they go above and beyond the call of duty to help us out and provide us with the information that we needed. We took our car there for him to help us and he had it back up and running. We also had a cracked water pump which he replaced free of charged as well has a Zenith Carb because as they put it "they stand behind what they sell" This speaks volumes to me. They showed us many cool tricks and took the time to explain everything. Nice to know we still have these types of businesses out there. If any of our CANADIAN as well as USA members need advice and to order parts I highly recommend emailing them or calling them for parts. Here is a website below. tell them we sent you. http://dixies.ca/index.htm Gene and Glen Franklan are the owners.

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