sgp7679

I got a problem. The other day I was pulling my car out of the driveway when it died on me. I Tried to restart it and nothing. I checked for spark and it looked kinda weak and i saw that the points were bad. I replaced the points with electronic ignition and now it gets good spark. I go to start the car and it still dosent start. I thought maybe carb was dirty so i cleaned the carb out and tried to restart and still no luck. I put some gas down the top of the carb to see if it would start and it wouldnt. Any ideas what could be wrong? The car is a 65' coronet. What can i check or do? please help

Polaradude

Is the electronic ign. grounded properly ?

sgp7679

yes im pretty sure, its getting a good sized blue spark.

Polaradude

There were no ugly noises before it died ? If it just died like it was shot, I'd say your problem is electrical, I'd check the usual suspects like grounds etc.

sgp7679

yeah it just died, no weird sound or anything. If its getting spark, what should i check?

Polaradude

The starter will crank ?

67 GTX

did the car sputter?

Polaradude

Maybe there's Chev parts in it...

sgp7679

Yeah the starter cranks but it just keeps crankin and the engine wont fire. When the car died it kinda sputtered to a stop. What could it be???

Polaradude

Plugged fuel filter ?

Polaradude

Sorry bro, had to go back and re read the 1st post. Your timing ok ?

sgp7679

My fuel filters not plugged. gas goes freely through it. I dont know about the timing. How do i check this? Can it just get untimed like that? It was running real good before it just died.

67 GTX

make sure your distributor is tightened
check your timing using a timing light and shign it to the crank balancer
it'll have marking on it
are you running mopar orange box electronic ignition?
make sure all wires are tightly in place

sgp7679

no im running pertronix ignition. If the timing messed up would it just do it when the cars going all of the sudden?

67 GTX

crank the engine by hand to top dead center, and make sure the distibutor is pointing to the number one cylinder

challenger

sounds like when you switched distributors (im assuming you did) i would make sure you put it back in the right place and after you check that i would try starting fluid and maybe you saturated the plugs so you might want to change them out

sgp7679

i didnt change out the whole distributor, just the points in it. Could my timing get messed up while im driving the car?

67 GTX

probably not, unless your distributor is loose

challenger

what 67 says but did you get the carb back together ?? and is that the problem

67 GTX

did you try this?

sgp7679

the carb is togther and working and i havent tried the tdc timing yet.

67 GTX

any improvement with the carb working now?

challenger

so how did you get the plunger in ? just woundering if it went back together ok for you, and try and get the timing on and see if it runs any better for you

sgp7679

yeah luckily i had another plunger laying around. The timing is good so now i think its the plugs. I had these plugs with my old carb that ran really rich and i looked at them and their black so i think their fouled out. Ill replace them and see what happens. Can plugs foul out while driving?

67 GTX

if the car is off, it is impossible to foul plugs
but, if at idle, and the carb was running extremely rich, then it is possible

sgp7679

well i cleaned up some old plugs and put them in and now it atleast tries to fire up but wont stay started. Ill try all new plugs tommorow.

sgp7679

i put in new plugs today and new coil and still nothing.

Polaradude

Sorry to keep buggin ya bro, but hows the timing ?

sgp7679

ill check the timing now but how do i know which cylinder is #1?