New Member with a question

6stang5

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Hi All!

I have been reading this forum for a couple of weeks - It's Great!!

We just bought a 65 Mustang with a 200 and 3 speed - it's in pretty good shape - nice paint and interior.

When we bought it the engine would idle fine and run fine as long as you were not pressing on the throttle - it would stumble as you tried to accelerate. I thought it was the accel pump in the carb as there was no squirt out of it into the carb. I rebuilt the carb and it ran better but the stumble was still there??

I then looked at the advance can on the dist, it was shot so I replaced it - now the car will not start at all!! I have fuel in the carb and spark at all 6 plugs, I thought that it might be the timing so I tried moving the dist around some but it did not help - it turns over just fine but does not want to fire.

Anybody have any ideas??

Thanks
Marty
 
We welcome new members. Carb questions are 50¢ each, and ignition questions 25¢.

Seriously, will it start with a splash of fuel or a squirt of WD-40 through the carby now? If it does, then a carb problem (still!). If not, then there is a timing issue that could be as simple as the plug wires offset. Verify visually, that the timing is at TDC compression, on number 1.

If no go after all that, perform a compression test and check fuel supply.

Regards, Adam.
 
Thanks for the quick reply! Did you get the coins I put in my computer's coin slot?? :wink: :wink:

I don't have any manuals yet for this car, and I am used to V8's - Chevy mostly but have always thought it would be fun to have an inline 6 in a Mustang!

I assume that the first cylinder is Number 1 and when I brought it up to tdc the rotor in the dist was pointing at the plug wire that went to #1 cylinder.

What are the directions for putting the dist in? When I set the timing before I replaced the advance can - to get it to 6 deg I had to rotate the dist until the advance can was hitting the block - that doesn't seem right??

Having Fun!
Marty
 
TDC occurs twice in each combustion cycle. You may have installed the distributor 180 degrees off.

You can quickly check to see if you have it on the correct stroke by removing he #1 plug, disconnecting the ignition, and turing the engine over until you feel compression occuring in #1. At that point, look at the timeing marks and distributor rotor to time the engine to #1.
 
As a new owner of the car, you may not be able to assume that anything was set up properly. As mentioned previously, verify that TDC on the compression stroke is occurring as shown on the harmonic balancer. The balancers have a tendency to disbond with age, and the outer ring may have slipped. Verify that the rotor in the distributor is pointing to the #1 tower on the distributor cap when the engine is at TDC.

Are your carb and distributor the original items? The original distributors had only vacuum advance. The carbs had a spark control valve and port that regulated the distributor's advance. Without the proper combination of pieces, the spark advance will not function properly.
Doug
 
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