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Old 12-31-2013, 12:43 AM   #8607
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!

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Originally Posted by Saclandman View Post
Tried to figure out why I'm not getting enough spark to fire up. New cap, rotor, points, plugs, wires, condenser, battery, battery cables, and coil. Rebuilt carb and plenty of gas.

Pulled the coil wire off the dizzy to check for spark, very weak and intermittent. Checked connections from starter to coil. Yellow to positive from starter, black from neg. to dizzy. TDC in #1 position. What am I missing here?
If you have access to a dwell meter, you should have 28-32 degrees of dwell.
Did this problem arise before or after you changed the parts? If it was after, go back over the things you did again, you should be able to fix it.
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