Hello all,
I'm looking for some suggestions with troubleshooting a new duraspark II installation.
I have a 1965 Mustang with a stock 200, and I have recently upgraded to a duraspark II distributor. The distributor, module and plug wires are all straight from the local parts store. I didn't have any luck locating a junkyard donor so I splurged and bought the American autowire harness. I kept the Autolite 1100 and just plugged the vacuum port. I was planning on running the distributor with manifold vacuum until everything is up and running as I'm a pretty big fan of changing 1 thing at a time until everything is working.
I managed to get it running well enough to break in the distributor gear but I can not get the engine to idle below 1500 rpm. It will run as long as I keep the revs up but as soon as I try to lower the idle speed the engine stalls.
I've checked the electrical setup with the duraspark and everything seems to be functioning properly. The engine ran reasonably well before I upgraded the distributor so I'm trying to figure out what I did when I changed out the distributor.
Any suggestions of things I should be checking on to find the source of the problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jim
I'm looking for some suggestions with troubleshooting a new duraspark II installation.
I have a 1965 Mustang with a stock 200, and I have recently upgraded to a duraspark II distributor. The distributor, module and plug wires are all straight from the local parts store. I didn't have any luck locating a junkyard donor so I splurged and bought the American autowire harness. I kept the Autolite 1100 and just plugged the vacuum port. I was planning on running the distributor with manifold vacuum until everything is up and running as I'm a pretty big fan of changing 1 thing at a time until everything is working.
I managed to get it running well enough to break in the distributor gear but I can not get the engine to idle below 1500 rpm. It will run as long as I keep the revs up but as soon as I try to lower the idle speed the engine stalls.
I've checked the electrical setup with the duraspark and everything seems to be functioning properly. The engine ran reasonably well before I upgraded the distributor so I'm trying to figure out what I did when I changed out the distributor.
Any suggestions of things I should be checking on to find the source of the problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jim