Re: Guess it might not be the points.... Suggestions!?

Posted by Ross On 2012/8/20 6:43:13

If the timing was OK when it last ran, it is still OK. If you want to advance it a hair, you can loosen the hold-down bolt and turn the dist a couple of degrees clockwise.

Backfiring through the carb only happens if the timing is WAY off, or when the fuel mixture is too lean.

A lot of these cars have been heavily diddled with by the unknowing in the past leaving all kinds of non-standard conditions. I assure you Grandpa hopped in that thing and drove it to work every day. Mine sit for weeks at a time and I usually don't even look under the hood before I turn the key and drive them out of the garage. Yours can be that way too.

As far as that backfiring through the carb goes, when you push it all the way to the floor, it opens the choke back up as a remedy if the car were to be flooded. Lets just skip that whole deal since you are working under the hood by yourself. You can operate the starter by touching a little wire from the pos battery post to the little terminal on the top of the starter.

Make sure your choke has snapped shut on the carb, and maybe give it a little drink. Turn on the key, hold the throttle about half open with your hand and then use your jumper to operate the starter.

Right now there are way to many variables in play. This thing is really not any more complicated than 2 old Ford tractors engines set in a row.