FINALLY!!!

["MO ( Steve Mick)" <micher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 WWWHHHOOOOOO---HHHAAAAA I got my 64 Sport Fury(383)  to start and run on 
it's own. No battery jumper or spritzing in gas in the carb.  I did not have 
a AH-HA! smokeing gun moment  during the whole ordeal.  This Fury had been 
used as a drag car, and when the former owner decided to sell it. I think he 
took off the good ignition and carb and put some things he had laying around 
back on it. There were so many things wrong he prolly got sick of it and 
then I came along with some cash in hand.  Some rare times it would start 
when you let off the key switch and then run fairly well. for a short time. 
I am somewhat good at diagnosis but it stymied me!  I knew nothing about 
Nopar electronic ignition or how to trace down an ignition problem with 
them. So I went back to a rebuilt  points distributor. No go.  I messed 
around with jumper wires and such that I can't remember the sequence of what 
I did.  I know I learned what a balladst resister does and how it works now. 
I got some wireing diagrams and started sorting out the jumble of wires. I 
found that the hot wire to the ballast was the wrong one. It would shut off 
the power to it when the engine was cranking. So I found the wire that 
remained hot when cranking the starter. and hooked it to the input side of 
the ballast  he engine would run with a boost of gas to start it, but after 
a short while, would die. I messed with the timeing but had to guess as the 
engine would not run long enough to know when it was close.  Rebuilt dist 
did not have hardly any point gap . Set that, no go.  Changed out the old 
MsSD coil for one that does not need a external ballast resister. No go. 
Took off the 3310 Hlley carb and someone had put the accelerator pump 
diaphram in upside down!  AAHH-HAA!----No go.  Put in new points and 
condensor, no go.  Had plenty of spark at the wire????   It would start but 
popped backfired puked . Has to be the carb. I bought a Holly 3310 carb at a 
swap meet that suppossedly been rebuilt and on the shelf for a long time. I 
had to transfer some parts from the first Holley  It would then start but 
still popped and backfired occasionally. So then I thought the plug gap 
would have been wider for the elet. ign. so I TOOK OUT THE PLUGS, CLEANED 
THEM AND RESET THE GAP. ( caps not intended)   Man ! what a PITA to change 
those plugs with headers !!! The engine started right up,  might have been a 
combination of getting the carb soaked up with gas and the plugs.

At first the engine still popped and puked back when cold, but after a while 
when warmes up better, it started running smoother. . I stopped for the day 
so didn't get the carb finer tuned.

Question is: Is this cold missfire and puking back from two lean a low speed 
fuel mixture?   My manual choke is not hooked up.  Any other things that 
could still be a problem? Thanks for your input...........................MO


{Steve Mick}
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