Car Won't Start, ignition system problems!

[Daniel]

Sean I'm glad its running again.Glad you redid all the connectors.Like I said yesterday You can't look at those things and say yes their good.Age does funny things.I have one more thought for you to ponder.Yesterday you replaced the point but not the condensor .When you put the coil condensor on the neg it ran.The question now is ,there was already a condensor on the coil neg.It lived on the dist at the other end of your coil neg wire.The factory location for that coil condensor is the POS side.Does that mean your coil neg condensor just took the place of your failed dist condensor and your misplacement error found the fix???I still believe replacing the worn connectors was not in vain.If it wasn't related to yesterdays problem it would have been tomorrows. Have fun Daniel

[Seanh]

I would second that idea about the condensor being bad...I will replace that as soon as possible now that I think about it...I think the complete cause of my problem was the points going bad. I replaced the coil and points, but neglected to hook up the radio capacitor like it was before when I changed the coil. I only got the car a month ago, and it was wired up with the radio cap on the negative side of the coil, so I wired the new coil up like that, and still got no spark because it was the points going bad also. So I played with the coil, and finally changed the points but didn't hook up the cap to the negative side, so I got it running, but ran like crap since the cap wasn't hooked up like it was before. So yeah, I will change the condensor coil and try takein goff the radio cap and see what happens and post it here...

Thanks for the huge help yesterday in trying to get it running, couldn't have done it without ya!

[Daniel]

Glad to help.Your last post concluded with what I think you mean but,lets put this to bed.My thoughts are for some reason the points and the dist.condensor had a fight.They both died.You changed the coil with no help.Replaced the point witha new soldier and set the gap.That made it run but poorly.You redid/cleaned the important connections.No improvement(although you know by now how I feel about that).Then you added the COIL condensor to the NEG.post on the coil .Results were positive.The factory/correct location for the COIL condensor is the POS. post on the COIL.Like I said before that was an effort to reduce AM radio static.Anyway,I think the now added to the wrong post (NEG) COIL condensor now did the job of the failed dist. condensor that was located at the other end of the coil NEG wire.The points are now somewhat happy and the car runs.So the moral to the story is put a new/correct condensor on the DIST.Move the COIL condensor to the POS. COIL post.Enjoy the fact you can now install points in any old car .Sell a good but slightly used coil on Ebay!!! Have fun!!! Daniel