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?????

[bossboy302]

TYPE 47: you never have explained how you got from "what happened-not running" to "Got it to run".

Even if it still runs poorly, you solved something.........what?

[Type 47]

TYPE 47: you never have explained how you got from "what happened-not running" to "Got it to run".

Even if it still runs poorly, you solved something.........what?

we set the static timing and then cranked it until it fired. We have to keep a hand on the linkage to keep it running. it doesn't idle on it's own yet.

We ran out of time and haven't been able to work on it further.

will update on the progress. when we work on it next, maybe tomorrow or Friday.