DeTomaso Mailing List: April 99, Message #141
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| From: | "Charlie Mccall" <Charlie.Mccall@haworthinc.com> |
| Subject: | Re: 74 L, now won't turn over. |
| Date: | Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:58:27 -0400 |
Having been victimized by a sheared dist pin once myself, I can confirm that my symptoms matched yours pretty closely. It idled rougher and rougher (presumably as the timing got more and more out of whack) then wouldn't idle at all. I too had a spectacular fireball or two coming out the carb. I would look there first and cross your fingers. If this is the problem, it is a quick and cheap fix.
Charlie McCall
1972 Pre-L
#3847
Still in France, not Pantera-less anymore!
>>> Norm Searle <nasearle@datanet.ab.ca> 04/05/99 04:39PM >>>
At 10:16 AM 4/5/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>Idle was rough, so I proceeded to check timing. I hooked timing light to plus
>side
>of coil, the negative to ground, and the pickup on plug one. Started the
car, it
>backfired
>through the carb, AND WILL NOT START AGAIN. What happened? I have a mallory
>unilite electronic
>ignition. Did I damage something? Please help. I am getting yellow spark at
>plugs? HELP!
>
>
>
Gee...Sounds like another case of sheared (or partly sheared) distributor
roll pin..??
Without any more info to go on I would pull the distributor and check this
first.
Norm