Reply to "Engine hard starting won't idle long"

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Hotstuff, with your conversion Motorcraft ignition, remember to double-pin the distributor drive gear on ALL Ford distributors. It's not the ignition load that cracks and shears the pin... FWIW, sometimes, the drive pin only PARTIALLY shears, retarding the timing almost to the point of not running. If you still haven't found the problem, pull the distributor and look through the pin's opening to verify the gear isn't twisted; eg- one side only sheared. If you can't see through, be very sure the gear does NOT have a spring-pin made of many turns of sheet steel; those pins are even weaker in impact than a std thick-wall roll pin.

7/28/1111:51 AM

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