Finally had time to spend in the garage today. I still have to tune the rebuilt quad on my new 400. Got the car to kick over, but ran like crap and could not keep it running. Ended up fouling the plugs and replaced them. After the switch, could not get the car started again. I have gas, compression, no spark. It just disappeared. Power goes to the coil, nothing out the plug wires. I can't figure out how it just stopped between plug changes. The only thing my buddy and I could come up with was maybe we fried something in the distributor while continuously cranking the engine. The engine itself only has maybe 1 hour of run time on it. When we rebuilt the engine, I installed an MSD billet distributor with a Blaster 2 coil. I am really stumped on this one.
On standard ignition you can static time it by looosen the distributor, take #1 plug wire off and expose lead. While key is in the RUN position hold plug lead close to a groud of some area on engine, turn distrubutor until you see a spark. That is TDC on your timing, it should at least start, from there time as needed.
put your timing light on the coil to distributor wire and see if you have spark there. If not, it will be your coil wire, your coil, your module or a loose ignition wire.
Vikki 1969 Goldenrod Yellow / black 400 convertible numbers matching
Checked all those things. I called MSD and they said to pull the distributor and send it in for some diagnostics. It seems there has been other cases of something burning out in these things.
i would check ur coil! i went thru a couple blaster coils just recently. and if u r trying to run a pointless ignition module in distributor they get fried to when u leave the key on to long. if u r using a pointless igition module check the specs for it. a blaster coil puts out to much voltage and burns up module, and if the module isnt working it wont let the coil put out spark. i had to use a certain mallory coil, a ballist resister (cause we came straight from fuse panel), with accel pointless igiton module. we fought the same exact problem (no spark) for a couple weeks before we figured it out. we got it to run, but got to where i didnt trust that type of system, plus it really clutterd things up in engine bay, so i dropped in a hei distributor. it started first try and a nice clean install.
The MSD distributor is an hei distributor. I believe it is supposed to be paired up with a Blaster 2. The resistor is only supposed to be used if you use the Blaster 2 coil with points.
