Recent content by maine40

I haven’t tested that yet, im going to get a new ignition coil ballast resistor, my coil is brand new so I should have no issues with it.

I’ve set the points gap properly now, I had set it off of the cam instead of on the cam, I can smell that it’s trying to fire, I am using an old deep cycle battery that I had laying around so I’m going to go get a new battery sometime this week and see if it will fire with the proper battery

My buddy uses both a match box and a dollar bill depending on what he’s got with him

Yes I did mean .020

I think that my points are too tight because they were at about .20 and I reset them to .18 so I’m going to set them back to .20 and see if that changes things

So I guess I’ve lost spark on all cylinders so I’ve gotta check wiring and see where it’s messed up

I did that, everything looked good and sounded as it should

It has a Weber 38 carb, im unsure on if the intake manifold it OEM or not

As far as I know it last ran bout 20 years ago, I’ve got brand new gas in it, it’s got all new plugs, wires, new points, new rotor, new distributor cap, i did check to make sure the distributor was in the right way, I have checked compression and it seemed fairly good, I guess I’ve gotta check...

Hi all, I have an early 1975 FJ40 with the 2f engine, cylinders 1-3 are acting like they aren’t getting fuel and when I pull the plugs they are bone dry whereas 4-6 are wet when I pull them. The engine will backfire if i use starting fluid but other than that it doesn’t even try to fire off. If...