----- Original Message -----
From: Carl W French <cfrench@cybertours.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 3:44 AM
Subject: dist/plug leads/67+G
> Trying to change my car from having the wrong top mounted dizzy cap to the
> correct side loading dizzy cap using bumblebee wire. I did not have the
> right connection for the coil, coil has plug and the wire from the new
> dizzy cap should be a screw in type. To remedy this I used the existing
> plug in type lead and cut the plug to dizzy cap end off and screwed in the
> plain end.
> Engine turns, no fire.
> reconnected the old dizzy cap and wires and the car works fine. I did not
> check to see if the dist cap end of the coil lead had a spark before
> reconnecting it. (Going to a show in the am and did not want to fool
around
> anymore). What does anyone think I did wrong? Did I not screw in the new
> connections correct?
Changing a top-entry 25D4 to side-entry, I presume? Not a 45D4? Did the
new cap have the spring-loaded carbon brush present? Did you push a
fish-hook connector into the coil-end of the king lead, and strip the plug
ends and push a staple into the core before clamping on the connector?
Remove the coil lead from the cap and hold it near the block while flicking
the points open - should see a good spark.
> Did I have the firing order correct coming from the
> cap?[does that matter?].
Most certainly. It should be the same as your old cap, of course, 1342
anti-clockwise, with No. 1 in the same position as your old cap.
> I looked into Claushagers and saw two early
> engines with the side caps and they had their wires in different orders
off
> the cap so that was of no help.
No chance, they all connect the same. Or at least, if one was connected
wrongly (and I can't see it) it wouldn't run properly.
PaulH.
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