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« on: September 08, 2022, 12:24:21 AM »
69z/28. I took an opportunity to clean some parts and pulled all the black bracketry out of the engine bay, repainted and installed. I took the car out for a ride and it died after about a 25 minute drive and I had it towed home. After some effort and a smoked battery to chassis wire, I discovered I never connected the primary negative battery line to the block. I connected it and the car seemed to run fine after a few rounds around the block. I took a chance the next day and after about 15 minutes the car died again. It stuttered a couple of times and then completely died. I towed it home and haven't gotten it running sense. Here's where I am:
Battery is 12.5 volts, charged, engine cranks but doesn't start.
The insulation around the negative battery to chassis wire is melted, but I've still got continuity and ground at the bolt
I've got nice good fuel spray in the carb and I've tried starter fluid
I bought a new coil and installed it. Resistance between - / + is around 3 ohms and from main to - is 10k ish
I've tried to crank it with and without the condenser
The yellow/white wire and condenser are on + coil and the black dist / brown tach wire are on -. At one point the condenser was incorrectly connected to neg.
Voltage at the + coil terminal with key on 6V
Voltage at the + coil when cranking 9-10V
Point gap is .015" so it's not frozen there
Had an inline spark tester that seemed to flash fine
I considered that I may have hooked up the spark plug wires wrong after checking the points. I disconnected the #1 plug and found the compression stroke and aligned the timing marker to TDC. The rotor points (and pointed before) to about the #6 position. It's off clock, but it was fine before. Photo below shows where it points and where I'm connecting the #1 plug wire. Seems right to be at some degree BTDC - again, timing was good before all this.
As I type this I've done nothing to check the voltage regulator.
All suggestion are welcome. I'm more than willing to start at square one.
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