furyus 67
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And attach it to the Phillips screw on the plug? Or??
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One thing or another.
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furyus 67
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Well I added a ground wire from the ecu to battery ground, no change. I'll swap the coils out in a bit. My cool is a blaster 2 that's a little over a year old. If that solves I'll be taking Stans stance on MSD!
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Check your centrifugal advance. Unhook your vacuum advance, and idle up your engine under a timing light. You'll want to see about 20° advance by 2,000 RPM (to a total of about 36°). Check to see if your timing is bouncing around as you accelerate as well. If it is, that means a spring is at zero tension, or your distributor bushings are worn.
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furyus 67
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I've swapped in three coils with same results. The distributor is next. Thanks fellas!
furyus 67
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Well after going back to basics and pulling the plugs, this is what I found. The # 6 hasnt been firing.
And closer inspection of the cap and rotor..
And here's the #6 post.....
So I checked the distributor shaft and here doesn't seem to be a bend in it..... So I think I'm gonna pick up a cap and rotor and borrow a distributor from a buddy .
And closer inspection of the cap and rotor..
furyus 67
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That's where I'm at with it!! Last time I pulled the cap( not long ago) I didn't notice the the smearing of the contact points.
furyus 67
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Anther thing, the plugs cap and rotor all were replaced at the same time .
furyus 67
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Well with out a timing light I took the the car over to an old school fella I know and after about 20 minutes of carb and timing adjustments she's running a lot better. He adjusted the distributor per how the vacuum advance acted when connected . He revved er up to about 2k then pulled the vac hose, reconnected it and it would stumble. He adjusted the distributor until the advance being hooked up didn't make it stumble. Then he started adjusting the carb by ear! Slowly putting his hand over the top of the carb to see when it would choke out I assume. I would love to watch him do this over and over.ayne then I could learn something lol.He's in his 70's and by the time he was done the car ran better than it ever did. Pulled the plugs and they all had a mild white dusting on em. They looked a lot better. He also loaned me a distributor which was on the car when he made the adjustments. Hopefully it doesn't change when I drop mine back in.
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furyus 67
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Well another sleepless night. On another note I swapped my distributor back in and as expected it ran like dog crap. So I broke down and did some searching on here and wound up getting a remained cardone unit. After a bit of tinkering she fire up. I'll put a light on it tomorrow and hope get it running right. I got so used to replacing sensors a computer told me were bad that it's safe to say anything I did know aboot carb tuning is gone. Reading a light is a little harder to forget.
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furyus 67
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can I assume that the springs were the issue in the old dist? I checked the gap at the wheel and there all real close to ten thousands . A couple people looked at it( more experienced than I) and scratched their heads as to what could be causing #6 not to fire.
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Glad to see you solved it!
furyus 67
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Thanks! On another note my MSD has returned from repair for the second time. I'm hesitant to reinstall as I don't trust it any more. Gonna do it anyway. I'll keep the Mopar ecu in the trunk. For safeties sake!
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