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So I took off for the gas station in the cougar to get a soda for my chili dog lunch. I come to a stop at the subdivision entrance, waiting on traffic to clear, and it dies just sitting there idling. I try to restart, and nothing. I start playing around with wires, trying to put constant hot to the coil and distributor, thinking the ignition switch is bad (thought it is brand new). Nothing. So I hike back home and get a few tools. Play around more, nothing. Hike back again, got my multimeter and more tools, and the truck this time. Get back to the car and test curcuits and all connections. Everything checks out. Have voltage to the coil and the distributor. While doing all of this, it would fire, but only as I was turning the key off, so that was making me think it was the switch. It would just barely kick the engine over a little, I assume it would fire on the cylinder that had the rotor pointing at the breaker on the ignition module, but that is the only time it would do anything. So I decide to just keep cranking. It started to fire on one cylinder about every 5 revolutions or so. Eventually it would fire more often, until it finally kicked over and started.
So I hurry my ass back home before it died again, keeping it from idling the whole way. When I pulled in the garage, it seemed to idle fine, but something still ain't right. What are your thoughts? In the end, when it fired up, all wiring was back in it original configuration.
I have a pretty good idea what it is, but would like it reinforced by other minds. I ruled out the coil as I swapped it with another.
Most know my build, but it is basically race car wiring, so is fairly simple. No ignition box at the moment, just a Mallory magnetic breakerless that is over 10 years old. It wasn't fuel either, the squirters were pumping plenty of fuel.
So I hurry my ass back home before it died again, keeping it from idling the whole way. When I pulled in the garage, it seemed to idle fine, but something still ain't right. What are your thoughts? In the end, when it fired up, all wiring was back in it original configuration.
I have a pretty good idea what it is, but would like it reinforced by other minds. I ruled out the coil as I swapped it with another.
Most know my build, but it is basically race car wiring, so is fairly simple. No ignition box at the moment, just a Mallory magnetic breakerless that is over 10 years old. It wasn't fuel either, the squirters were pumping plenty of fuel.