@Riley posted:I didn't check anything else because, frankly, I was so annoyed by the car that I just put it up on the quickjack and went inside to enjoy the rest of my Sunday in front of the TV, haha! Unfortunately, with work, I may not be able to really look/test anything until the weekend. But all these posts give me a lot of research to do.
Above all, do not explore them all otherwise you will get lost!!!
Troubleshooting is a logical step-by-step process and certainly not following the advice of the neighbour's uncle's grandfather who had the same thing on his Ford T 90 years ago.
It is true that with experience you can "feel" where the breakdown is coming from, sometimes even without being able to say why, an impression which is in fact based on the multitude of those you have already seen. With experience you can also know that on this type of car there is a weak point often at the origin of this kind of breakdown and start by checking this point but you do'nt have this experience and it cannot be shared not or very difficult, therefore METHOD, METHOD and again METHOD.
As I told you above first determine if it is the gasoline or the ignition.
Assume it's ignition (wet spark plug and no sparks) then you go up the current path:
- Spark at coil output? Yes/No? To do this, you disconnect the high voltage wire that connects the coil to the distributor on the distributor side, you bring the end of the wire close to a metal mass (1/4'') and you operate the starter. Sparks ====> it's probably the distributor cap. No sparks ====> we continue but without replacing the distributor cap because the brother-in-law of the neighbor opposite solved a breakdown by replacing his.
Coil energized? Yes/No? For this you need a voltmeter and check if there is the right voltage where it is needed, this voltage and the terminal supplied vary according to your type of ignition. The voltage is good ====> there is a good chance that the coil is defective. The voltage is not good ====> we continue to go up the current circuit but there is no point in replacing the coil because that of the neighbour's uncle's grandfather was faulty 90 years ago.
etc., etc.....