Thinking the worst...here's what happened

[frotosride]

Well I made it up north. Not entirely without incident.that little miss got worse at the 84/384 split but after. He king everything I could think of and replacing the distributor cap I made the old man limp the rest of the way. The miss is still there and rather bad. I pulled each plug wire from the cap to verify each was hitting....believe me its hitting good. Hit me 12 times because I'm to stubborn. I guess its possible I got a bad plug? Is their an easier way that I can test without pulling each one?

[Irish_Alley]

if you have a cylinder miss you can (with the engine cold but just started) touch each exhaust port with your fingers and see which one is cooler to the touch. but the headers do heat up kind of fast so work fast

[frotosride]

So you know how you work and work on something and then the very last problem presents itself. them temp drops 30* over a 2 hour period and you are worn out but gotta get it done. so after diagnosing cylinder #5 as the culprit i pulled the plug and realized the gap was way off as well as I managed to let the brand new wire touch the header and burn just enough to ground out. I regapped the plug and repaired the wire and bang it works like a champ!! thank God! now it's got a short life until 6.0 time. thanks for the hint Irish it reminded me of the water bottle technique, which as the video shows works flawlessly.

[Irish_Alley]

np glad you got it figured out