What went wrong?, it was running great and then not at all Options

[Type 47]

so we put the original 62k engine back in that had not had the distributor removed. Adjusted the valves (again after we put about 10 miles on it) we rebuilt the Webbers and it fired up. We did some timing and tweaking on the carbs.

It ran OK but a little shy of perfect. I replaced the wires and it seemed to improve it but idled a little high around 1,200.

My son came over to work on it the next day, but I wasn't home. All of a sudden, it won't even run.

we swapped distributers (both 009's) with the parts car, then swapped points (adjusted to 0.016). no improvement.

tested spark to all four cylinders. I seems like it's really out of timing but we didn't change it much. (except for the fact that we took the distributor out)

my son says we have spark, too much fuel, and not enough air.

What do we do next?????

[ChrisFoley]

with a timing light while the engine is running.

[Superhawk996]

with a timing light while the engine is running.

Not really a solution when the engine won’t start and they have no idea where the timing is set at. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Static timing is set without the engine running - Google is your friend as is the link that was posted previously.

Post #21 from Gatornapper is one way to do it by observing the spark.

I prefer to use a multimeter across the points to know exactly when the points open. The engine is set at 7 degrees BTDC by referencing the timing mark on the fan without the engine running. The distributor is rotated until the points just open as observed on the multimeter. Lock down the distributor firmly enough that it doesn’t rotate inadvertently when cranking.

This will set the timing such that you know where the spark is going to occur when the engine is cranking. Once started, then you can use the timing light to fine tune and to observe the mechanical advance from a 009 distributor.