Author Topic: 305 no spark  (Read 2860 times)

Offline onemean85

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305 no spark
« on: October 05, 2014, 05:45:59 pm »
Not a truck, but my buddy has a monte carlo purestock dirt car with a 305. We pulled the intake to replace gaskets. Got the distributor in, has streetfire hei. Pointed the rotor at #1 at tdc, put the plug wires back on and got everything else back together.  Tried to start today and wouldn't fire so we changed wires to how they were when we pulled them off. Then it fired bit wouldnt run. Then checked spark and it doesn't have spark. Then distributor started hissing and smoking and got really hot. Any ideas on why it would do this? Ran when pulled it apart

Offline onemean85

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Re: 305 no spark
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2014, 05:59:46 pm »
It burned the ignition coil. Any ideas why?

Offline VileZambonie

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Re: 305 no spark
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2014, 11:51:03 am »
Was it properly seated and installed? carbon button and insulator in properly?
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