Afternoon everybody.
Long time listener, first time caller.
I recently picked up a '63 Fury with a Slant Six, and even though it ran fine I wanted to have a 'baseline' to work from so I gave it an oil change, fresh fuel and air filters, and picked up a basic tune up kit (plugs, wires, cap, rotor). I did the oil and filter changes Thursday evening and drove it to work on Friday. Ran fine, no problems. Saturday AM I swapped the ignition bits and that's where everything fell apart. After installing the new plugs, wires, cap, and rotor it wouldn't start. Cranks strong but won't catch on even a single cylinder. So far I've:
* checked that I didn't dub up the plug wires (order is the correct 153624)
* checked for spark: Strong and blue when I grounded a wire to the block.
* Plugs are wet with fuel. Dried them and reinstalled, still no joy
* Ohm'd the coil, she's sitting pretty at 1.9
* Swapped in a spare coil (I have a '69 D100 so I've got tons of spare parts already) anyway, just in case
* Swapped in a spare Ballast resistor
* Traced every ignition-related wire from the key to the coil, thinking maybe I bumped/broke something old and fragile while I was swapping parts
* Ran a jumper wire from the ballast resistor to the coil, again just in case
* Swapped all of the old ignition components back in, one at a time, just in case one of the new parts was defective (it's happened before)
* Mined FBBO and a few other Mopar pages hoping for a stroke of brilliance from somebody else who's suffered a similar fate.
I still can't get the darn thing to start. This IS an old points-style ignition still, so I have new points and a new condenser on their way. But I didn't touch the originals during my tune up so I'm stumped.
Who can tell me what I'm missing? At this point I've blown most of my Labor Day weekend doing labor, and I'm ready to just close the garage door and pretend the car doesn't exist for a week or two.
Long time listener, first time caller.
I recently picked up a '63 Fury with a Slant Six, and even though it ran fine I wanted to have a 'baseline' to work from so I gave it an oil change, fresh fuel and air filters, and picked up a basic tune up kit (plugs, wires, cap, rotor). I did the oil and filter changes Thursday evening and drove it to work on Friday. Ran fine, no problems. Saturday AM I swapped the ignition bits and that's where everything fell apart. After installing the new plugs, wires, cap, and rotor it wouldn't start. Cranks strong but won't catch on even a single cylinder. So far I've:
* checked that I didn't dub up the plug wires (order is the correct 153624)
* checked for spark: Strong and blue when I grounded a wire to the block.
* Plugs are wet with fuel. Dried them and reinstalled, still no joy
* Ohm'd the coil, she's sitting pretty at 1.9
* Swapped in a spare coil (I have a '69 D100 so I've got tons of spare parts already) anyway, just in case
* Swapped in a spare Ballast resistor
* Traced every ignition-related wire from the key to the coil, thinking maybe I bumped/broke something old and fragile while I was swapping parts
* Ran a jumper wire from the ballast resistor to the coil, again just in case
* Swapped all of the old ignition components back in, one at a time, just in case one of the new parts was defective (it's happened before)
* Mined FBBO and a few other Mopar pages hoping for a stroke of brilliance from somebody else who's suffered a similar fate.
I still can't get the darn thing to start. This IS an old points-style ignition still, so I have new points and a new condenser on their way. But I didn't touch the originals during my tune up so I'm stumped.
Who can tell me what I'm missing? At this point I've blown most of my Labor Day weekend doing labor, and I'm ready to just close the garage door and pretend the car doesn't exist for a week or two.
