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Cylinder not firing
By Tim P. - 09/06/2002 9:42:38 PM; IP 68.112.191.29
Just getting my bored and stroked 390 going again after a rebuild and the no. 8 is not firing. This was happening before the rebuild which led me to believe bad spark plug wire or distributor. Today I started it cold and immediately put it in gear and made it misfire/not fire for 15 seconds then I touched all the header pipes and one was noticeably cooler, so I put a new spark plug in and a new wire on and tried again with no luck. Then I pulled the hose off the vacuum advance and plugged it and tried again with no change. Is it time for a new distributor? Coil is pretty new, cap and rotor are also pretty new and look normal. I'm running the stock distributor with a Pertronix unit.
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 RE: Cylinder not firing -- Ron D. Maxwell, 09/06/2002
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 RE: Cylinder not firing -- Pete, 09/06/2002
 RE: Cylinder not firing -- John, 09/07/2002
 RE: Try this. -- Gerry Proctor, 09/08/2002
 RE:Compression? -- R Shannon, 09/10/2002
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