check the volts outa the coil and at the points if they keep closing. If its
9V instead of 6v you have put on a ballasted coil and dont have a ballast
resistor in line... took ages to figure out when this happened on a car I
built a few years back!
Derek
74 b
Scotland
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mgbreh@aol.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>; <mgccnwc-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 6:58 AM
Subject: BGT runnin bad kinda long sorry
>The bgt suddenly the tach went wacky &it lost all power & would not
restart.
>So i walked 2 1/2 till someone from work picked me up of coarse it was
raining
>after all i live near seattle. The car has been acting up lately it would
not
>idle & missed sometimes. So afterwork ( yesturday this happened) I had
put a
>used ford coil out of my newest b ,this cured the previous no idle run
rough
>ploblem. So i thought the coil had died so i got a new one it didnt help
the
>points wernt opening so i ajusted them & away iwent for 1/12 miles till it
did
>it again. This time i reajusted the points it started right up Then ran
badly
>again, so i double cheched they wereclosed again bye now it was gettin to
be a
>hour1/2 till dark the road was very desolate the wife was with me so i did
not
>have to walk. We flagged down a cop who called a tow truck So its home &
yes
>David i tipped him he was really cool. So tonite i put in the old dizzy
that
>worked well in my 76. So i put in a proven dizzy & a NEW coil get it
started
>set the timin & boom it runs great!! i let it run 10 min or so & went for a
>test drive the car worked great till i turned around it started missing At
>3500 -4000 in 3 gear it started buckin & backfirng i barelly made it home.
Oh
>by the way the bushings in the old dizzy were junk it wobbled really bad!
The
>timing is still right on the dwell is within spec when it runs it fires up
&
>almost dies right away it spits & backfire as it turns over only sometimes
>Any ideas ??????
>
>Ray Huff
>
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