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| | | | Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 21 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 21 | Pulled distributor on my '54 235 to replace a suspect vacuum advance. I believe I got it back in correctly but, now engine will not fire at all.
Ideas? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,787 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,787 | Pull the #1 spark plug, and hold your thumb over the hole while someone makes quick taps on the starter pedal. When compression pops past your thumb, check to see if the distributor rotor is pointing toward the #1 plug wire. You might have gotten the distributor installed 1/2 turn out of phase with the camshaft.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 21 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 21 | Turns out that coil went bad just at the wrong time! | | | | | Joined: Aug 2017 Posts: 660 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2017 Posts: 660 | Or at the Right time....not on a road trip...
1950 Chevy 3100
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