Hotrod, joker...
I spent the whole day in the garage using all your advise trying to get the ole 235 fired up. its gets sooooo close but no cigar.
I literally have the dist set to severly retard and lob then with an 1/8 inch turn of the dist, the motor will speed up to where it almost starts. the motor did actually start once with just the gas in the carb, and ran for about 15 seconds, then it ran out of gas.I hooked up the gas can to it and never would start again.and this was with no changes.
I noticed a few things that I dont think are promising.
1. very low compression in all cylinders but one.found this by taking out plug and hearing the puff sound.cant feel or hear sound out of the rest of the cylinders.
2. I am thinking no adjsutments can be made to distributor since the smallest turn makes such a change.seems right in there.
3. cant get fuel pump to work. took off and made sure it was seated right, but still no gas. still figuring this one out. its installed in correctly,and I noticed even when I pump the lever in my hand it doesnt pass gas out the discharge.I ended up using an elevated can straight into the carb.
4. the coil seems to get really hot??
5. I am running a wire from positive coil to battery positive, and negative coil to distrb screw. i am thinking this is correct.
so if compression is low, could / would motor not have enough umph to kick over? and if it is shot, is it repairable
so gave up for today so I can give this some thought.
