Thread: 460 won't fire

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Remove the distributor cap and rotor. Make sure the points are closed. Then have someone turn on the key (to ignition only, not start position) and use a small screwdriver or something similar to manually pry open the points. You should see a spark jump across the points there. That will at least tell you if you have juice going to the points. After that step lets talk again for step number 2.

Don

What kind of distributer setup do you have? If the timing isn't off by 180, possible something wrong with distributer setup. You say it ran once which leads me to think maybe it's a fried wire, like the black one from the distributor to side of the coil(little wire, not plug wire). That is what plagued me with my 71 429 when it wouldn't start. I replaced the wire, and bammo, houston we got ignition!