pishta
I know I'm right....
Whats the fascination with EI on an old slant? Kettering will get you home. Id say keep one in the trunk but on a slant its a PITA to remove. Simple pimple.....
You know ,the distributor and magnetic pickup are both used, plucked out of a shed and given to me. Any way to test that magnetic pickup to see if it is bad?
Small update. Timing was shown to be about 20-25 BTDC (yikes!). Got it back up to about 10 BTDC and tightened it up there. My misfiring is gone, the idle has improved greatly, and if I left the car shut down for a few minutes it would start much easier than before. Took a short drive up and down the street, restarting the engine multiple times. So far, so good. Next little 'baby step' is to the gas station.
You know ,the distributor and magnetic pickup are both used, plucked out of a shed and given to me. Any way to test that magnetic pickup to see if it is bad?
Small update. Timing was shown to be about 20-25 BTDC (yikes!). Got it back up to about 10 BTDC and tightened it up there. My misfiring is gone, the idle has improved greatly, and if I left the car shut down for a few minutes it would start much easier than before. Took a short drive up and down the street, restarting the engine multiple times. So far, so good. Next little 'baby step' is to the gas station.
Johnny
There are just 60degrees between towers. It is possible to advance the timing to a point where the spark jumps to the wrong tower. But I'm pretty sure you knew that.
Johnny
I think I got lost; are we talking about the OPs issue?
or an issue you have experienced?
You can NOT necessarily show that with resistance checks. Only some sort of dynamic or output test would show that. Since there is no such data, a guy would have to develop a tester, and say, test "a bunch" (maybe 50 or 100?) "known good" pickups to get a baseline.
So I got the pickup in the mail today....question is, how do I remove it. I see one screw, and the vacuum advance pin. Do I just press that pin in and it can be removed?
Edit: Trying to gently lift. It seems like the area with the big pin is free, but something on the other side is caught. There's seem to be another pin? Do I use a screw driver just to pop it out?
if your lean and the float level is super low, you could possibly stall it in a turn especially if you have power steering.