TLowery04
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Cashion Oklahoma
OKAY
So
I bought this rig offline, It was in storage for about 4 years in a field.
trailored it home, put a tow bar on it and pulled it down the the hotel I'm staying at for work.
The wiring was eaten by rats - I spliced and cobbled, and heat shrunk it all back together.
I changed the spark plugs and set gap to .035 as per spec on the sticker
put about an ounce of pb blaster down the shoot to work over the rings in case they froze up when I tried to crank it
waited about 6 hours,
put the old 540 cca battery in it which was dead, jumpered over to a pickup, and tried to start.
no spark as far as i can tell,
voltage at the coil is 12.5 and drops to 4.5-6 during ignition cycle
tried to measure ohms from coil to distributor but it doesn't ohm? I cut a spare open and there's no wire in it... just what looks like carbon fiber mesh. The one I have on now is a MOPAR part I'll take a picture in a while of the one I cut up.
SO - Doing a spark plug test I get no spark when trying to turn it over.
Now, This is the choose your own adventure book type question I have,
Is my next step to walk down the alley and buy a new battery
or should I climb the tree and start with a cap and rotor and new wires?
what else should be checked that I might have missed?
So
I bought this rig offline, It was in storage for about 4 years in a field.
trailored it home, put a tow bar on it and pulled it down the the hotel I'm staying at for work.
The wiring was eaten by rats - I spliced and cobbled, and heat shrunk it all back together.
I changed the spark plugs and set gap to .035 as per spec on the sticker
put about an ounce of pb blaster down the shoot to work over the rings in case they froze up when I tried to crank it
waited about 6 hours,
put the old 540 cca battery in it which was dead, jumpered over to a pickup, and tried to start.
no spark as far as i can tell,
voltage at the coil is 12.5 and drops to 4.5-6 during ignition cycle
tried to measure ohms from coil to distributor but it doesn't ohm? I cut a spare open and there's no wire in it... just what looks like carbon fiber mesh. The one I have on now is a MOPAR part I'll take a picture in a while of the one I cut up.
SO - Doing a spark plug test I get no spark when trying to turn it over.
Now, This is the choose your own adventure book type question I have,
Is my next step to walk down the alley and buy a new battery
or should I climb the tree and start with a cap and rotor and new wires?
what else should be checked that I might have missed?