Re: 1952 300 not starting

Posted by hoenshellg On 2010/6/16 20:30:00

Thanks for the good ideas. Asked an old mechanic to come take a look and he figured it out after twenty minutes. The spark plugs were autolite and instead of sparking across the electrode it was firing between the porcelain and the case of the plug. Put champion j8 plugs in and fired on the first try. Still having problems getting it to idle smoothly. I have checked the timing with a timing light and it needs to be slowed down but cant get the distributor to turn that far. I know that all I have to do is twist it and get the next tooth. I just don't know if i should since at one point the car ran smooth. What do you guys think? Since the car has ran smooth i have rebuilt the carburetor and the fuel pump. I don't know if that will have anything to do with it not idling correctly.