At the risk of being banned from the list for incompetence, I'll tell you why
the engine wouldn't start.
I had replaced the weight springs in the distributor and put the cam spindle
in 180 degrees in the wrong direction. Then I must have put the distributor in
180 degrees out in the other direction because it started up and ran until it
quit, for a reason I still don't know. In trying to resolve the problem, I
set the distributor in correctly (but with the cam spindle still in wrong). I
finally noticed the rotor was facing towards the number 6 wire and the light
bulb went off. Switched the spindle and it fired right. Finally got the idle
down to a respectable tick over and the vacuum retard that I rebuilt actually
works!
Thanks for the input.
Bud Trussell
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