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 rebuilt the 292 completely, with most of the work done by the
local expert, but it wouldn't start no matter what he tried. He got so mad
at it that he made me an offer, "pay off the machine shop's bill and you can
have the car!" $110 later and readjustment of the points and timing, I
cranked it and drove it home. He was very disappointed and felt he just gave
it away, but he never said anything and I didn't either. I went on to win
quite a few trophies at the San Antonio Raceway with that car.

So, Bob, go out and set the points again using a feeler gauge and sight the
firing point manually. It may be as simple as that was for me. Or will you
make an offer like that? I'll even pay for the points. LOL

Dennis in eastexas

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Bob Coorsen <cometdog63@...> wrote:

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> All
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> 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
>


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