smells like gas so i assume so

Does it burn if you strike a match to it? (Careful not to burn your fingers! You might hold the match with a pair of pliers.)

Apparently fuel fouling can occur from running the wrong temp of plugs. What plugs are you running?

Either that, or you're running REALLY RICH!

Black and fuel soaked? Surprised it'll run at all.

T-stone, just went back over your post and you mention that you are waiting for a resister for your coil. If you have been running a coil that is ment to have a resister, without one, the chances are, that the coil is fried.

I was running the original coil with resistor.

was waiting on resistor so i could put the new one in.

i was talking with a local mechanic, he said it is the distributor causing the problems.

Thats great. ( not that you have a prob. with your dis. but that you have found the prob. ) Hope that puts things back on trck for you. good luck and pls. keep us updated.

the mechanic said that i need to set the gap on the points or something like that, im not familiar with distributors at all.

im i need of some help with this

i looked it up and found that the point gap should be set to .018

i will set the gap and timing.. hope this clears all the issues

if i have incorrect info please let me know

0.018 - 0.022 in. You can just pull the coil wire, put the car in first, then push or pull car ( doesn't take much ) until the heal of the cam follower is on the highest point of the dist. cam, set the gap with a feeler gauge and thats as good as it gets. Still think you might have a mixture prob. but it will all come together with some tuning.

i changed the point out, the one on it was fried.

after changing it out and setting the gap it did great.

i found that if you leave the ignition on when the car is not running and the point has a gap it will continuously fire and burn the point.

Thanks for all the help

Cool! I hope that does it. You might drive your car a couple hundred miles on fresh plugs and then read them. I suspect you might still have a mixture problem.

BTW, points are a pain! You might consider upgrading your ignition sometime to electronic.

I am trying to find an electronic diss from a 280, but not having much luck