For Those Who Have Purchased a "Non-Running" Mopar/Other

My first 67 Dart I bought as a non runner, the previous owner said it quit running all of a sudden. He & some of his friends worked on it for 3 months he said & could never get spark to the plugs. I bought the car, drug it home & started diagnostics. The points, condenser, cap, rotor, wires & plugs were all new. I checked to make sure it had fuel & I took the distributor cap off. I had a friend hit the key. What I found dumb founded me, some how the intermediate shart had broken in the oil pump. I bought a new shaft, brought it to TDC, stabbed the shaft & distributor, put the cap back on & it fired off the first time. The PO said he & his friends never thought to check for the distributor rotating. LOL I drove the car through high school & beyond until a kid made me an offer that I couldn't turn down.