Thread: having problems starting my 62 stepside c10 spark problems

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a while ago i was able to get my eingine to fire it up and now i'm not getting any spark i hooked up a tester light and hooked it up to the top wire on my coil it lit up bright and so i hooked it up to the boot that connects to the distributer and it still lit up but it was very dim and my coil is really hot to hot to touch should i get a new coil or should i start investigating into the distributer itself if anyone can help i would grately appreciate it thanks

The light will be dim as it is reading thru the coil windings and the coil do get hot. Is the coil firing? How bright is the spark? Pull a sparkplug out and attach it to the plug and ground it then spin the engine and observe the spark. If you see a crisp little spark then put the plug back in and dump fuel into teh carb and spin the motor again, it'll probably try to fire up.

i have already tested to check for spark and didn't get a spark off the plug wires distributer? i have also put gas straight to the carb thats how i knew i needed to check for spark and there wasn't any just tryin to find out if i should start with a new coil or figure out something with distrubuter. thank you for helping

Points closed ??open to far?..condenser bad?

i'm not sure how do i check by the way it doesn't have the old eingine it is a 350 in it not the smaller ones that are stock for them

"D" wearsout if not lubed then closes points

i checked it and it seemed like d was sitting ontop ofthe further back part of b should i put it back inbetween b and e? so it seemed like it was always touching even when turning flywheel

Should be about .016 between the points(B) with (D) on a high point of(E)

i have adjusted the points but won't be able to try it out till tommorow thank you so much for your help i'll let you know if it works thanks again

i checked it today and still got nothing out of the distributer and no spark from plugs i checked a plug on top of the distubuter with a test light and got nothing do i need to pull the distrubter and make sure the wire to the bottom is connected correctly or do i just need a new one also my coil is still getting power even when my ignition switch is off is that a problem?

Son, it's gonna require writing a book to help you and I don't know if anyone is up to the task. See if you can't find someone locally who can lend a hand.

Originally Posted by 62beast

i checked it today and still got nothing out of the distributer and no spark from plugs i checked a plug on top of the distubuter with a test light and got nothing do i need to pull the distrubter and make sure the wire to the bottom is connected correctly or do i just need a new one also my coil is still getting power even when my ignition switch is off is that a problem?

Do you have any kind of voltmeter?

sure you getting power to coil when engine is cranking ? many times we hot wired boats to fire them at the boat yard . you can only run 12 volts threw the points for a very short time before you burn them up. but if you can crank the engine with the key . timing is good point gap .fuel . you run a jumper wire to the bat to the coil it will run if not then is condenser or points or points wire there a break in the wire

when i turn the key the eingine does turn over and when i had the light hooked up to the wire going into the bottom of the distributor from the coil and turned the eingine over it flickere the light in the tester and i currently don't have a multimeter i am going to get one on monday though thank you guys for all your help i greatly appreciate it

Originally Posted by 62beast

when i turn the key the eingine does turn over and when i had the light hooked up to the wire going into the bottom of the distributor from the coil and turned the eingine over it flickere the light in the tester and i currently don't have a multimeter i am going to get one on monday though thank you guys for all your help i greatly appreciate it

I searched the web and found a really good pdf document that shows the steps to diagnose a points system with good pics and diagrams. Send me a pm or send me an e-mail if you want it. I'll reply with the attachment. It's to big to put up here easily. mfmike1@verizon.net
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