If it happening to all 4 plugs is something communal to all. Is the engine
block grounded properly? - put a jump lead between the head and ground on
the battery as you turn over to make sure that is OK. If they are new h.t.
leads are they the string/carbon type (and is there a wire from the string
to the metal spark plug cap?) or are they the proper copper wire leads?
(That allow radio interference.) I've known people try to screw the copper
wire plug covers into string leads and use washers on the string with 'screw
down' type distributer caps. Is the carbon piece in the top of the inside
of the distributer cap making contact with the rotor arm? Are there trace
lines inside the dizzy cap or on the plug insulators? Have you tried
pulling the h.t. leads from the plug tops and putting a spare plug in and
grounding that to see if it sparks.
It could still be odd-ball problems such as those above as it seems you
have tried most other things.
Have you had a look at the electrics in the dark to see if you are getting
undue arcing anywhere?
Best of luck
Guy R Day
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Perez" <eap2140@yahoo.com>
To: <corvallis@peoplepc.com>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 45DM4 Re: still no workie...
> Rich put the timing light on #1 and we were getting pulses. We found this
> to be true on all wires. It's hard to explain.... either we have very
> little spark (that we cannot see) or no spark at all.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "corvallis@peoplepc.com" <corvallis@peoplepc.com>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Sent: Thu, October 29, 2009 11:08:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 45DM4 Re: still no workie...
>
> Is the 'rotor' even turning? I have a little gizmo that shows spark. It
> looks like a very short sparkplug wire with a neon bulb in the middle.
> Flaps
> would have them. You put it at the input to the distributor cap and plug
> the
> hot lead from the coil into it. Crank and it flashes with each pulse from
> the coil. If that works, then do it for each sparkplug wire. Check back
> with
> us. ...bill in oregon
> ===================================================================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Edward Perez
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:13 AM
> To: Edward Perez; kk7ss@verizon.net
> Cc: Spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 45DM4 Re: still no workie...
>
> I'm at the point with this car that I really need some expert help. Rich
> and I worked on it last night. We swapped out the distributor with a new
> Mallory dual point distributor and the car wouldn't even start. We
> confirmed TDC and the new coil is good. Getting spark all the way to the
> cap, but not to the cylinders. Put in the points distributor from BillM
> and
> had the same results. I'm getting pretty frustrated with this problem.
> It's been going on for months now. I had a lot of people give their time
> in
> putting this engine together (NOSHIT II) only to have it plagued by this
> problem. I still have not even driven it to break in the motor. I'm open
> to any assistance on this. I really want to get this car running. If you
> are in the Seattle area, please let me know if you have time to stop on by
> and throw in your two cents. I'm at my wit's end with it.
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