Posted by Tim Holloway on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 9:07PM :
In Reply to: Re: coil- or -point problem need help also posted by Kaegi on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 1:59PM :
Hi Steve,
Last year I drove the Power Wagon to pick up some stuff. It was running great. I pulled into the plaza and shut it down. Ran the errand and got back in, she wouldnt start. I poked around under the hood and pulled the distributor cap. First thing I noticed was the spring loaded carbon contact was missing. I poked around but to no avail. Fortunatly there was a Napa in the same plaza so I went in there. they had 2 caps listed, and had 1 in stock. Of course it was the wrong one, but I was able to fit the contact from the new one into the old one. The length was too long so I had to keep filing it down with the file on my Leatherman. Once I could get the cap to snap on she fired right up and off I went. I never did figure out what happened to the original contact.
Tim