Recent content by JHillWRX

Alright.... Thanks for the warm welcome! Since my last post, I have replaced the ballast resistor, the ignition coil, and the distributor. Its running a 5 pin box that was brand new... I traced the wires and they are all connected correctly... need to trace down a bad ground or a direct...

Thanks for all the help, gonna trace all the wiring down and see if i can find it.

Tell me about this TrailBeast kit?

Traced all the wires and added the wire you drew... got that spark tester, no spark from the coil... I need to test start position voltage vs run position voltage, i am getting 10.5 volts in run, the battery is at 11.5 volts. Need the wife to help turn the key, but its midnight here so im...

Thus definately isn't the same distributor that was in the car when me and my father restored it... i think the guy who worked on it converted it to electronic. I went out and bought a two post and four post ballast resistor, they were $6 each why not... and an inline spark tester. That...

There is a vacuum on the left side that isn't connected

Hmm... maybe its not... i will take pics when i get home this evening. thanks for all the help... Maybe the orange box was replaced with a electronic distributor...

Busy working today, will take a look later.

From the time it ran after me and my father restored it, my mother drove it in the rain a few times and she paid someone else to try to fix it... it looks like he replaced the distributor and possibly the ignition control module, the ignition control may have been replaced earlier, but both look...

Cool, thanks... I read somewhere that the wiring is based on the distributor either points or electronic(something)? Car is a 4spd with points... Was factory 318, now has 360 block.

Yeah... tried grounding a plug with a jumper back to the neg terminal and got no spark after trying to ground on block... intake is aluminum.

Thinking i need a in line spark tester and test coil output to distrubutor... Although the distributor looks brand new

It looks good, wiring is good... original part probably, alternator was replaced att some point.

It has brand new optima red top... brand new starter... Has fuel at the carb and cranks over like its waiting for a spark to go...

Everything looks right... it ran before parked... I am getting a 10.5 volt reading at the + for the coil when ignition is in run... Should i be looking at the distributor even though it looks new? I plan on getting a in line spark tester, all i can do is ground a plug.