Gentlemen, I thought I had my problem licked after the last thing it did and that was to set my Dist. air gap back down to .008 from over .020 from when I got the car.
Things fired better and small drives made it look like I was ok, but....
Yesterday, fired her up and drove around the neighborhood to make sure things where ok.
They were but after 15 mins or so as I came down my alley she acted a little funny, I knew I needed gas so parked it,
when inside to get my stuff to go over the Cindys house and 10 minutes later fired her up and headed to the gas station.
It was bucking a bit, but once again I though gas. Turned her off and filled her up. Off I went down the road for 3 miles and 2 lights, not a problem.
Left the lights and sped up to take an on ramp to the freeway, at the freeway , opened her up and it started kicking.
I feathered the pedal, pumped the pedal, but all the time loosing speed and kicking an bucking til finally coming to a stop with the engine dead.
Lots of fast traffic so I got out of the car opened the hood and let her cool off for 20 minutes exactly. I know from previous, that it might start after
10 min cool down, but will die again shortly after.
It started up with kicks and bangs like she was firing wrongly, but did start and away I went and made it home.
This 1972 has a 383 engine with 727 auto. Stock intake that I just put on with new gaskets.
New fuel pickup, fuel line blown out, fuel gauge installed on line to carb, 5 psi all the time, new fuel filter before the pump.
Holley 670 cfm Street Avenger, I just installed a 4.5 power valve and cleaned out the filters on the two inlets.
The Old MSD-6A box is wired directly to the Battery with good power and ground.
The Coil is a brand new MSD Epoxy Filled unit that i was told is ok to install on the manifold horizontally, Don't do this to the oil filled MSD ones.
I jumpered the single ballast resistor to rule that out.
I checked all the plugs and gapped, they where at 35 and I went with 45, obviously not part of the equation.
Mopar electronic distributor with 0.008 air gap.
Well this is what I have and not sure of my next move.
Maybe get a new pickup that goes into my distributor and try that.
That sound the cheapest.
Next would be a new distributor, but that would be just for fun, since the guts should fix any problem there.
Next would be a new MSD box.
Please throw in your 2 cents, this is driving me mad!!!!
Thanks
Trev
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