Alrighty! After a year of grimacing about how things are below the mason dixon line, two days with wire grease, a wire brush, a new 800 cca battery, three distributor changes, five or six wire changes, plug changes, gap changes, carburetor change, electric pump addition, all of a sudden she comes to life! Not sure which change did it, but bingo! Initially one just cylinder one. then two came on board, and three and four still don't seem to work when idling, but do seem to work at speed. Finally just shut her off at about 2 am and am going to tidy up tomorrow evening and get her back on the road. Took the plugs out of 3 and four and they are firing but if I pull the plug wire at idle I can tell they aren't firing. Might just need some driving! I love the smell of the interior. Been parked under a carport for a year and it still has a "new car" smell to it. Tomorrow is going to be a good day! Not sure why I have to get on here and yak at nearly 3 am. Guess I'm glad I didn't wake the neighbors banging around. Nice stainless steel exhaust is still in perfect shape! There was this one big brown wire that went from where the battery negative connects to a terminal thing to the bottom of a box beside the terminal thing. It was brittle as heck. Probably that one wire the whole time. Who cares, long as it works. Probably time to rewire. Tomorrow is going to be a driving day! Or later today I guess I should say. The folks on this board are the absolute best there is at helping out.
