White puffs of smoke out of carb after install new points

[Pete W]

I changed out my points, plugs, wires, dizzy cap, condensor, coil, and rotor plug and can't get my car to start. I get these white puffs of smoke coming out of the carb every 2 seconds accompanied by a squeak noise. It doesn't sound close to turning over. What did I do to it? I didn't touch the carb.

Thanks,

Pete

 

[fordconvert]

Do you mean it cranks but does not seem to fire? Or is it locked up and not turning? Puffs of smoke would seem to indicate its getting some heat or spark from somewhere. Is it possible the dizzy moved when you were doing the tune up? Have the wrong cap or rotor so things are not indexed correctly? Got the plug wires 1 off or in the wrong order? Maybe someone in the past dropped the dizzy in wrong and moved the wires over 1 hole so the one marked #1 is no longer #1? Pull the #1 plug and crank or turn engine by hand with a finger over the #1 hole when it pushes your finger off its on the compression stroke so if you move the crank to line up the timing mark on the pulley at 0 you should then see the rotor pointing at where you have the #1 terminal on the cap. If its not the case see if it lines up with the next one or the previous one. Which ever one it lines up with has to be #1 and then move all the rest over to mantain the correct order (which I dont remember off the top of my head).

 

[Pete W]

I'm an idiot!

I hooked up the spark plugs in backwards! No wonder it would not start. On a good note it did help my vibration problems at 60mph. Changing out the ignition components dramatically reduced the vibration but did not totally cure it. I'm convinced it was a high speed miss problem and not a drivtrain problem.

Thanks for your help TJ

Pete