I drove it for the first time ever! I bought her in 2013 in need of everything and here we are today. Still have many things on the list but now we can go places.
Well it is finally running again. I had 2 Pertronix 1662LS units that were bad. One I no doubt burned up myself when I left the key on. Coil is still good. I put the points in again as the first time I did it would not start. I must have done...
3000+ miles later……Got it delivered and off the truck….then drove it into the driveway…same driveway my wife and I drove into with my 1974 FJ40 when we bought the house in 1978.
I have no doubt that right now the timing is off some because I had the distributor out and it has been reinstalled.
I am also going to check the ground at the distributor. Its acting like it has no ground I think.
My system does not have a ballast resistor anymore.
Yes I am incorrect about a jumper to coil negative thanks for that. Right now my coil negative has the yellow wire from the Sniper unit and the wire to the pertronix unit.
I understand the...
Well I tried grounding with the jumper cables and no change. I also put in points and no change. I think I am going to try a jumper from the ignition switch to coil negative if I can figure that out.
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