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Hey All, New Guy Here.

1970Custom

They call me Spuds
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Either a breaker bar and socket on the crank snout or with the starter... Pull #1 plug and stick your finger over the hole. crank it over until the compression forces your finger off. When it stops doing that, #1 should be relatively close to TDC...
 
Loosing light and the battery is dead. I'll charge it and try tomorrow. What am I looking for as far as the rotor button? What will that tell me about the coil?
 
okay, battery is charged, pulled #1 plug, held my finger over the hole while my son cranked until compression forced my finger off. Pulled dist cap off and the rotor was pointing to the #1 wire. I also re did the screwdriver spark test with charged battery, no spark to speak of. Is it a good bet to say the coil is bad? Please keep the replies coming! Thanks.
 
A few weeks later and truck is running! New coil and condenser and nothing. As I said I just bought the truck and its been 20+ years since I worked on a car/truck. Someone responded about points, rotor, cap etc... and I said they appeared good. Well as frustration mounted and remembering what we did "back in the day", I pulled points, filed and cleaned, put them back in with correct gap and the truck fired right up! I ordered all new plugs, wires, cap, rotor and points from parts store. On my way to get them but there is 6" of new snow on the ground so I wont get them in today. I guess the lesson is to cover the basics first! If and when the sun ever comes out I'll get some pics posted.
 

Fellro

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Little late to the party, but points was what I was about to suggest. They can certainly do that, be fine one minute and not the next. I have had that happen a couple times.
 

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