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All

This was suppose to be pretty simple-change the points, condenser and rotor and
now car will not start. Did a dwell test prior to changing everything and it
came up 46 (40 is norm)

Needless to say car started fine before change. Any ideas or tests I could run.
Did not chnage anything else.

thanks
bob

Sat Jul 4, 2009 6:18 pm

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All This was suppose to be pretty simple-change the points, condenser and rotor and now car will not start. Did a dwell test prior to changing everything and...	Bob Coorsen cometdog63	Jul 4, 2009 6:24 pm
If you are at 40 dwell now and nothing is misconnected or grounded I'd suspect a bad condenser. Swap the old condenser back in and try it. I'm assuming you did...	greg corcoran gocorcoran	Jul 4, 2009 6:47 pm
I know about 'simple' fixes. In 1965 while in the military and newly married, my landlady's daughter's boyfriend rebuilt a 56 2 door in good shape. He had...	Dennis W galaxiexl68	Jul 5, 2009 2:35 am
Troubleshooting 101 says.....1) being able to recognize a normal condition.....2) got to the most recent area of last work ________________________________ ...	Brian Mclean bmclean1962	Jul 5, 2009 10:05 pm
NEVER strike out the possibilities of a defective NEW set of points! It happened to me one time and it drove me NUTS! I recommend getting rid of points and...	Bob bobout63	Jul 6, 2009 5:22 pm
Bob Any luck on getting her started? If not I could come by some day after work and lend my 2 cents. Bill McGowan Bethesda, MD ...	McGowan, William wmcgowan0	Jul 7, 2009 4:08 pm
How long did it sit since you last started it? I was chasing a problem for a week only to find that it was getting bad gas.. Mixing it up with new gas (and...	Corey Crawford crawfoco	Jul 6, 2009 6:03 pm
step back and start over daaaaaaaaaa and got everything running guess what no more ping as well whoo hooo b...	Bob Coorsen cometdog63	Jul 8, 2009 1:51 pm
ps-great story. going to start carry a $100 bill around and see if I can get lucky as well b...	Bob Coorsen cometdog63	Jul 8, 2009 1:53 pm

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