Rich in NJ
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Now I have the same problem on two of my three Fords. Both my '57 Powermaster (841) and my '63 4000 (4 cylinder, gas) refuse to not only start, but neither of them will even cough. Both of them were running just fine before I began what should have been a routine tune-up. Both are 12 volt, I have replaced all of the plugs, rotors, points, plug wires and caps; and still nothing. I figured that since both were running just fine before, I wouldn't need to remove the distributors in order to avoid having to ensure that the No.1 position was correctly timed to the engine - or am I mistaken? Aside from this, I am still being plagued with the problem of none of the plugs firing outside of the engine. On both engines I have reconnected the plugs to their respective wires, and they just won't show any spark. Even if the timing was off, surely the plugs would at least spark? One thing I did discover was the the new set of wires (and connectors) are junk. As far as I can tell the wire (7 mm copper wire) is fine, but the connectors are useless, as in the process of all of this troubleshooting, they have either already pulled away from the wires, or worse, have become stuck in the cap. I have already ordered a separate set of connectors, hopefully they will be better quality that what I have now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!