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Herb, what kind of shape is the coil in? Is it an HEI or points ignition? I had a coil go bad on my '72 Blazer and the major symptom was a weak spark - how does the spark look if you ground a plug to the intake? Brad O. Herb wrote: > About a week ago my wife and I drove the Vette to visit her sister. Round trip > was about 260 miles. It ran just fine all the way there and all the way home. > Once we were home, I pulled up to the driveway so my wife could move her truck > out of the way (the Vette sleeps inside the garage). As she was getting out, > the engine sputtered and died. I turned the key and it cranked a little longer > than normal but finally started back up. It sounded a little rougher but it was > running. I pulled it into the garage and shut it off. > > Yesterday I fiddled around with it and got it running by slowly moving the > distributor until it fired. It seemed to be running ok, I even went and got > gas. Sure enough, the movers show up this morning and I go to move the Vette > and the damn thing won't start! It'll turn over forever but it just won't > start. I pulled the #1 plug and checked my timing about a dozen times, I pulled > >the valve covers and the valve train appears to be working properly, I even went > to Autozone and got another distributor just to see if that was the problem, no > dice. ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
