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Re: Timing and Starting Josh_51GMC #745564 05/08/2011 5:19 AM
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,897 san francisco B bigbadswingdaddy Shop Shark
bigbadswingdaddy Shop Shark B Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,897 san francisco	Darn, I missed the part about your truck being Canadian. American GMC trucks were 6 volt positive ground. Did your truck run before changing all the ignition components? Years ago I wired my 270 gmc 6 backwards... and it still ran... very poorly, but it ran. Are you sure you wired the plugs in the correct rotation?

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Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/03/2011 12:07 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	bigbadswingdaddy	05/03/2011 9:52 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	di1953gmc	05/03/2011 3:05 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/05/2011 5:13 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/05/2011 5:22 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	don stocker	05/05/2011 2:29 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	truckernix	05/05/2011 4:23 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	di1953gmc	05/05/2011 4:54 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/06/2011 1:43 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	tclederman	05/06/2011 2:24 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Grigg	05/06/2011 2:43 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	kb3csw	05/06/2011 2:44 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	kb3csw	05/06/2011 3:05 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/06/2011 3:38 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	kb3csw	05/06/2011 1:12 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	kb3csw	05/06/2011 1:48 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/07/2011 1:02 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Grigg	05/07/2011 1:43 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	bigbadswingdaddy	05/07/2011 2:55 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/07/2011 7:32 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/07/2011 7:35 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/07/2011 8:37 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	3B	05/07/2011 8:48 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/07/2011 8:52 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	3B	05/08/2011 12:28 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/08/2011 1:10 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/08/2011 1:15 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	3B	05/08/2011 2:41 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/08/2011 2:55 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	3B	05/08/2011 3:26 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/08/2011 4:50 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	bigbadswingdaddy	05/08/2011 5:19 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	bigbadswingdaddy	05/08/2011 5:24 AM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/08/2011 7:55 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	bigbadswingdaddy	05/08/2011 10:08 PM
Re: Timing and Starting	Josh_51GMC	05/10/2011 1:13 AM

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