Re: Which Coil do you guys use?

Posted by Mike On 2011/4/21 17:41:22

Rebuilt the spare autolite with parts i bought and new car, etc and everything except plugs and wires. Installed per gap instructions found on here. No spark at all.

Took cap off, tested for grounded hot side of points (no) tested for grounded condenser wire (no) tested for cap to rotor continuity (yes). Tested for power to coil (yes) and coil polarity (correct).

Finally, saw that the points weren't closing all the way, even on the flat side of the bumpy spark pusher round thing. loosened the screw, pushed them closed, and hillbilly gapped them, and instantly spark.

Fired it up and backed it out into the sunshine and tuned it a bit. Set the idle for 500, engine rocks a little but not a ton like it did before, when i thought i was chasing a vacuum leak.

(I changed to the metal faced gaskets and now have an exhaust leak from chasing the intake leak i thought i had. Dammit.)

Interesting thing to notice is that the car wants more advance when running than will allow it to start easily. Will try to think of a way to let it have lots of advance running but less to start. Maybe it's too far advanced, didn't get to road test it yet.

Also, bought a complete tune up kit for the delco dist, and will clean and paint and rehab it all nice.

Idle vacuum is about 18HG, i thought i read that that was a healthy number?

Thanks all for the help so far troubleshooting all these issues...it can get discouraging, and i know i would have given up without this site.

Here's some pics of how the engine bay on the whole project came out overall:

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