Wasn’t it windy up there?

I wish. But no. Other than taking them off one at a time when I checked the plugs, the wires are right where they were when the engine was running fine.

Didn’t spend much time on it on Sunday. Instead I took the Plymouth for a long, top-down ride to clear my mind! I’d say a wind in the hair ride, but that would be lying.

I had an old Beetle that I rebuilt and had the same problem on reassembly. Turns out I had plug wires crossed. Couldn’t be that easy could it?

 Paul, I know you have pumped fuel into a container,but have you checked the output PRESSURE of the new pump?  The sputtering and backfiring could be symptoms of not enough fuel getting to the carbs.

That’s part of the frustration…everything in the ignition chain is new, cap, rotor, points, condenser, plugs, plug wires. All new and correctly installed.Engine WAS running. Then stumbled and died.

loved that sinefield clip almost as much as who could hold out the longest 

Paul, just a random thought, check the dist cap too.  I remember waaay back in auto shop in high school, we had a test trying to diagnose a engine problem that was runnin rough.  Turned out the teacher had taken a pencil and marked the electrodes with the lead graffite.  New cap it ran fine , I totaly missed it.    There might be just enough…[Read more]

That would make gettin the grand kids in and out..  Not to mintion me and my tired old bones.

Maximum “shrinkage”, I’m sure.  (For you Seinfield fans)

Bill, That would have been a great scene to see. I’m assuming you were heading to work when the ice water inundated you.

Allen, I usually don’t think much of Harbor Freight tools but I bought this vise and it is a pretty good one.  I really like the way that the head swivels.  Very nice.   

Good news and bad. The good news is I got all my ball joints installed. The bad…after I got the last ball joint installed, while loosening the vise on the C-clamp, the main body of the vise broke in the base plate. Score: ball joints 4, vise nil. I’ll have to get a new vise. New one will be HEAVYduty!

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Ford beat you to it.

Remember the blizzard of 95-96? I was out in that. A set if steel wheels from a Ford Fairmont and real snow tires and she totally surprised me. She was excellent in the snow. The snow wasn’t as bad as the flooding that followed. I went through a puddle (small lake) and water poured in from underneath, splashed off the back of the dash and…[Read more]

That’s awesome!Thanks for the news Bill!

 I know we have a few Guest from outside the USA and Canada in the guest book.. BUT today I’m shipping the first Badge to another Country..Thanks to Frank Hughes of AUSTRALIA for be the first TD in another Country to be sporting a BADGE.on his MGTD . Guess that now makes us an INTERNATIONAL CLUB     OOHRAH as we Marines utter when good things ha…[Read more]

Paul,

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This problem you’re having is kinda like a TV series with each episode leaving you hanging till the next episode. I anxiously await the next episode to see how it turns out. This has been a real mystery. I’m hoping the finale is soon for you. Summer is coming quickly to a close.

Paul, You seem to have confidence in the timing and the distributor.  Assuming that the carbs are ok, could you possibly have crossed 2 plug wires?  

Run it a bit and see if she settles down.I know you’ve built these motors and so you know what you’re doing, but something sounds wrong, spark-timing-wise. Maybe gap the points on every lobe with a feeler gauge? Just make sure something didn’t go haywire in the disty?