Re: ihc-digest V6 #309

["Owen" <renarac@domain.elided>]

Hold on a sec.  No ballast resistor burn out your plug wires? What resistor
are you using now? Too much resistance (ie having a resistor wire in place
and adding a ballast resistor) will not allow the coil to put out enough
juice for full RPM. Try disconnecting the hot wire into the resistor and
hooking a new wire with an aligator clip from the pos battery terminal to
the resistor. Kill it by unhooking the aligator clip.
Possibly you have a "resistor wire" in there from a previous owner.

You know. Some counterperson monkey could have dropped your cap before you
got it. You might have a cracked cap.

Also. I remember about 4 years ago there was a rash of disinformation on
rotors in the parts catalogs/computers. It fit, but the length of the end
(that arcs from the plug connectors) was about 1/4" too short.
If you have your old rotor, throw it back on.  For the life of me, only GP
Sorenson had the correct number. Its been corrected now(lasted about 3
months). But Napa, BorgWarner, Al's, Shucks/Kraagen/Checker were all giving
me the wrong number. It's a long shot. But it could be one of those rotors.

-----Original Message-----
From: KSOffroadr@domain.elided <KSOffroadr@domain.elided>
To: ihc@domain.elided <ihc@domain.elided>
Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: ihc-digest V6 #309


>In a message dated 11/29/98 10:37:09 PM Central Standard Time, owner-ihc-
>digest@domain.elided writes:
>
>>  Did it ever run OK before?
>
>Yea I drove it home from the shop but it had all the new parts...I didn't
use
>a ballast resistor and I fried the distributor and all the wires...coil
>to...but I replaced them all and put a ballast in.
>
>> If so, maybe one of your new parts is not so good.  You could be getting
a
>>  crossfire. One plug would be getting enough juice to fire at the wrong
>time-
>>  during the intake stroke.  So the explosion comes back through the
intake
>>  valve out the top of the carb.
>>
>>  Happened to me.. I replaced a whole carb for no reason.  But then
replacing
>>  a 27-yr old carb didn't bother me all that much.  My reasoning was that
it
>>  idled great and since there was an explosion, there was by definition a
>>  spark. so how could it be the ignition?
>
>
>True and I did replace a distributor for no reason...oh well.  replace the
>brand new plugs was the next thing.  ~:^(
>
>Steve
>