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You are going to have to refresh me on the state of tune of your car along with how many miles are on it. Also, what have you outruled from the time you had this problem.

 

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Not sure about that. I would clean your battery terminals with some sand paper or a wire brush. You could have a bad ground somewhere. Did you re-set the timing correctly when you put the distributor back in?

 

Okay I was a little confused on that one. I had the small wire that went to the positive terminal disconnected, not the main one.

But yeah, I recently cleaned the terminals and everthing with a dremal tool using the wire brush attachment. They are very clean.

I just don't understand why the power cuts out when I try and start it, then it randomly comes back on by itself.

 

Sounds like a bad ground. Trace your grounds. You may have a corroded one on your block/head. Now you are sure you set the timing right. I know this may be a different problem but you didn't mention that as part of your intake gasket swap.

 

Well I don't know why the timing would be off. Like I said after I put the distributor back in place the car ran fine. It wasn't until about a month later until I started having problems. But I will check it.

So you don't think these two problems are related?

 

I have no idea but I do know that you cannot just put the distributor back in without setting the timing. You just can't and expect it to run right. The computer will compensate a bit to sorta limp along but you have to set it.