Fairly new guy here, C.Galloway, trying to get his slant 71 A body fired after a long sleep. Screwed up last night, fell asleep in my chair and woke up a t ONE AM new time, got up at 6, so not much sleep, LOL. Went out to his place about 9:30 and got home about 2:30. Compression was low, either the long nap dried things out, or maybe got washed out. Squirted some oil in the holes, he had new plugs, and there were recent cap/ wires. Points were fried. Replaced points/ condenser and THAT went WAY better than I could have hoped. "Guessed" at the points gap and plugged 'er into the latest military supaw doopaw dwell tach and the dwell was RIGHT ON
Next, the previous owner had had big trouble with the fuse link/ red ammeter circuit, had stuffed some wires through a grommet,added a twenty amp fuse, which the current owner had replaced with a 30--it later blew, LOL. BUT THE BIG THING is the ign2 bypass circuit was not working. I still don't know why. I pulled the bulkhead connector ign harness off, checked continuity to the coil, and it may have been corroded right there, because it magically started working.
The carb (I think) still needs work, but it starts and idles pretty well, engine sounds good with no rattles, clanks, etc.
"We'll see' Chancy is gonna have a shot at the carb
I took a nap tonight about an hour, and hope I can kill the time lag by tomorrow or next day.
The meter. Bought this, made by Simpson for the military, and it will also handle the outboards. 2/4 stroke, and in reality will do anything from 1 cylinder to ??? The one scale is in percentage instead of degrees. This means if you have something that's oddball, you can "figure" the percentage and use that scale.
Next, the previous owner had had big trouble with the fuse link/ red ammeter circuit, had stuffed some wires through a grommet,added a twenty amp fuse, which the current owner had replaced with a 30--it later blew, LOL. BUT THE BIG THING is the ign2 bypass circuit was not working. I still don't know why. I pulled the bulkhead connector ign harness off, checked continuity to the coil, and it may have been corroded right there, because it magically started working.
The carb (I think) still needs work, but it starts and idles pretty well, engine sounds good with no rattles, clanks, etc.
"We'll see' Chancy is gonna have a shot at the carb
I took a nap tonight about an hour, and hope I can kill the time lag by tomorrow or next day.
The meter. Bought this, made by Simpson for the military, and it will also handle the outboards. 2/4 stroke, and in reality will do anything from 1 cylinder to ??? The one scale is in percentage instead of degrees. This means if you have something that's oddball, you can "figure" the percentage and use that scale.
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thank you for jumping in and helping out a fellow mopar person, I feel like you realy enjoyed your time there and figuring this out, if I get board it seems working on things I know about, I enjoy it 
even though it's very hard on our bodies and brain, wait !! most likely good for our brain wouldn't you think Del
