<VV> hey, my car starts!

[TimogensTurbo at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/3/2006 8:27:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
mhicks130 at cox.net writes:

> I don't know Matt.  All I know is the car would crank like crazy but not 
> start.  I tried it right before I started working on it.  I then took the air 
> cleaner off and verified that the carbs were squirting gas.  I then decided I 
> would just swap out the rotor, points and cap since I had a brand new set 
> just waiting to be installed and noticed during disassembly that the point plate 
> was out of the hole in the VA arm and was kind of stuck.  I bent the VA arm 
> up so the point plate would stay in and put it back together and voila, the 
> car started.  Maybe I magically changed something else that caused it to work 
> but I doubt it.  I didn't change the points, cap and rotor.  They're the same 
> ones that were in when it wouldn't work.  You tell me, all I know is it 
> works now.  
> 
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OK!!  the plate rose up keeping the points from working!!!   BUT

How did it run fine when you shut it off?    Someone's screwing with you?

Matt Nall
stocker, mod, v8, turbo, boat, Sandcar
ALLVAIR!
Timogen was a softy!