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Battling the evil forces of ignition 140-160 1973

posted by  Steve M. on  Mon Jun 12 03:02 CST 2006
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So, my 145 was running well enough -- till I started working on it. Sigh.

Installed a Pertronix kit on Saturday. I can coax the car into running poorly, and only with a lot of choke and 25 btdc. The plugs are carbon fouled when I check them.

I assume that if I get a spark at the plug while static timing it that the Pertronix is working, yes? The spark seemed a little feeble -- not much snap to it. Could this be a bad coil?

Maybe I should put the points and condensor back in as a diagnostic, but the thought of forcing that little rubber grommet through the aperture in the distributor is dissuading me.


Steve M.
Raleigh, NC

73 145
84 240
96 850





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