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Reply to "UDPATE - Stalling like it's out of gas... but tank is full."

What has been described are not the symptoms of a failed coil. A failed coil will do one of two things. 1) It will not fire the ignition at all at cold start up 2) it will become "intermittent", i.e., it will start a cold engine but when the engine is warmed up or hot, it will not fire on a restart.

This is fuel related. Look at your own title to this thread.



It should be mentioned that Holley carbs have a tendency of clogging the idle air bleeds in the main body which will also give this stalling effect. What is confusing is that the carb will show fuel in it when you squirt the accelerator pump and will start but will almost immediately stall the engine, That's because the idle system is not engaging.



While you are on the subject of ignition, you may want to consider upgrading it to a solid state distributor like the Motorcraft, a better control unit like the Pantera-Electronics Ignition Controller and one of the aftermarket coils that P-E recommends with the Controller.

Last edited by panteradoug
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