She was falling on her face when heated, replaced cap, rotor, plugs, and wires. Idled her warm, and touched the ignition coil and it died.

Replaced coil and she ran like a striped ape for a thousand miles, well, after I fixed the muffler that exploded during the not so pleasant times.

Then she died last week, and its not getting a spark to the distributor. Replaced distributor with a decent junk yard part, which had a better looking copper coil, and I still don't get a spark when I crank the engine. Salvage man is a good friend of mine, and the engine was running when they pulled it a few years ago.

Any ideas?

 

is the coil atleast putting out a spark?

 

The coil is good, we used one we knew was working since the latest break down.

I did stumble on an old thread that said to check to see if the rotor is spinning while cranking and sure enough, it wasn't.

Anybody have any pdf literature on swapping a timing chain?

ty ty ty

 

Get a haynes manual, itll tell you what to do and torque specs, all that good stuff. theyre not the greatest thing in the world, but itll walk you thru what you need for that job. BTW, make sure its the chain, it may be a broken cam too, not as likely, but still a possibility.

 

I have one already, but its at home. I had a roomie read me the section over the timing chain, so all should be good. I gave up finding a pirated copy online.

Ty though!

 

well did you take the rotor shaft out and check it because that happen to me the gears or whatever in the shaft just chewed themselves to pieces

 

I put in a different distributor so I don't think that would have been the issue. I'm going to replace the timing chain Monday when my mechanic can supervise, I'll post results.