my cars been down for 6 months WON"T SPARK

mopowermatt said
ramcharger- I've tried that and it won't spark to the ground if the dist. is in the motor. I've done that test. But then I took the dist. out and spun it by hand and it sparked to the ground perfect.

440 duster- when I spin the dist. by hand it's out of the engine.

could there be a problem with the dist. grounding to the motor.

I broke one of the gaskets for the waterpump today so I'm going to go get another one soon put it back together and make sure I have 12 volts even though I'm pretty sure I do.

OK, Matt. When you say that there is no spark with the distributor in the engine, are you checking from the spark plug wires or right from the coil wire? If you get no spark from the coil wire, you probably have a short to ground in your inductive pickup circuit. If you have spark from the coil, but not to your plug wires, your rotor is shorting to ground. Make sense?