65GTO
07-19-2008, 11:46 AM
Howdy all.. Got my tri power all ready to go on tuesday, been converting the car over, fixing my valley pan leak, new throttle cable, etc etc. Part of that has been going from HEI back to the points distributor. Me and the old man rebuilt it before dropping it back in, new condenser, set the points, greased everything etc, looks alright to me. Changed the HEI connections back to lugs for the coil and hooked everything up, again looks right, checked the wiring diagrams, had three old guys check me.
Alright here's where we're all getting stumped and hope somebody can shed some light.. We have been hitting everything with the volt meter and the test light, and somehow we're getting power going into the coil, but not out the top of the coil. Figured it was a bad coil, changed it to a new MSD coil, same story.. SOMEHOW, it must be lighting every once in a while because the car is backfiring like a shotgun blast every so often. Things are close to in time, but not getting any spark through the wires, or through the coil..all the wires are showing 8ohms of resistance or so, so they're fine, but they can't be the problem if electricity never gets out of the coil, right?
Kind of stumped here with the coil, we're convinced the GTO opened up a black hole and electrons are being destroyed, defying the laws of conventional physics. Our only other theory was the coil was somehow grounding out on something, but we've got nothing for suspects. Any help/theories would be greatly appreciated.. I'm thinkin I might just rip out the entire wiring harness and throw a new one in, but this harness worked with the HEI so there's no logical reason it wouldnt work now.. :confused:
Alright here's where we're all getting stumped and hope somebody can shed some light.. We have been hitting everything with the volt meter and the test light, and somehow we're getting power going into the coil, but not out the top of the coil. Figured it was a bad coil, changed it to a new MSD coil, same story.. SOMEHOW, it must be lighting every once in a while because the car is backfiring like a shotgun blast every so often. Things are close to in time, but not getting any spark through the wires, or through the coil..all the wires are showing 8ohms of resistance or so, so they're fine, but they can't be the problem if electricity never gets out of the coil, right?
Kind of stumped here with the coil, we're convinced the GTO opened up a black hole and electrons are being destroyed, defying the laws of conventional physics. Our only other theory was the coil was somehow grounding out on something, but we've got nothing for suspects. Any help/theories would be greatly appreciated.. I'm thinkin I might just rip out the entire wiring harness and throw a new one in, but this harness worked with the HEI so there's no logical reason it wouldnt work now.. :confused: