Great Pumpkin
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So.... I am (very) slowly getting my 1970 Fury III 318 2bbl on the road after it sat for 12 years. I replaced cap, points, rotor, condenser, wires, plugs... and it was running pretty good (I hope last thing is small carb leak, still not addressed) And then a few days ago.... after a lot of cranking finally started and ran rough and then died halfway out of my garage (couldnt open doors, so out the window!). Now after a week of muddling about it still just cranks and wont start. Someone was helping me out, saw spark off coil to distributer wire. We regapped points and nothing. Next day I replaced with new condensor, put back old cap and rotor, for kicks swapped coil to distributor wire, each step would start. I tested coil today with ohm meter, primary 1.5 (FSM for 2444241 says 1.41 to 1.55 ohms is good), secondary 8700 (FSM says 9200 to 10700 ohms good) - good enough? Was gonna to look for ballast resistor to test, but dont remember seeing it. Under coil looks like a condensor, thought it might be there. Attached pic, what is the piece on firewall?
Any tips please in helping to get Fury to start? Really appreciate it! I need to move my Fury, birds are crapping on it!