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davyfireball

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Today I was blading my driveway and my 1948 12 volt conversion quit. It's like you shut the switch off. I tried to start it and thought I flooded it. I checked the wiring to the coil and had power.So my neighbor pulled it with his 4wheel drive.It fired once and then no more. pulled it around the block. Still nothing so I got it in garage took out sparkies. Dried them with torch and put one in plugwire I had a weak spark.I checked it was getting a good stream of gas when I took the plug out of the carb. I changed coil gave her a shot of either and it fired up. I just cleaned the battery cables both - & + and it fired up and it's 10 degrees. DO you think I fixed it. Or you think she might have got a bad drink of gas. The terminals were clean . But I did clean the connection to the block.
 
1948 = Front mount distributor.
To me it sounds like you got moisture in the distributor.
When you brought it in, checked things out and changed the
coil, the distributor dried out enough so it would run.
May be time for new gaskets in the distributor if they
haven't been changed recently.
 
Royse may be correct.

However, what coil and resistors are you using. You might
have burnt a coil, but... its just as likely was moisture. Post
back.

Later swap in the old coil and see if it runs.
 
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