Farmall 350 was running but with a miss on the #1 cylinder. Pulled the distributor cap and the contacts on the cap and rotor were crudded up and was surprised it ran at all. The plug in on the rotor for the number one cylinder was also black. My 16 year old son installed a new cap and rotor and it now refuses to fire on any of the 4 cylinders - occasionally if you grind the starter long enough one cylinder will fire just once then it grinds for a long time then it will fire again. He swears he installed the wires exactly the way it came off. I checked and they do appear to be in the correct order and I rotated them over one hole advanced on the rotor then one hole retarded and it made no difference - no fire while turning the engine over. I returned the spark plug wires back where my son had them. It is getting fuel (solid stream out the carb), and the spark plugs will throw a somewhat weak looking spark when grounded to the frame. As I said it was running until he removed the cap. I have not done anything with the points.
The only other issue is that everything seems damp when we work on it. Its been about 10-15 degrees for weeks and we worked on it a couple times when it warmed up for a day. On those days the wires seem slick with condensed water and even inside the distributor cap is seemed a little damp.
I guess I could try advancing the wires two holes - that would make it 180 degrees from where we started. The old cap and rotor were tossed when he was working on it. The only thing I can think of is that the rotor might 180 degrees off?????? Anyone ever run across that on the Chinese made cap rotors?
The only other issue is that everything seems damp when we work on it. Its been about 10-15 degrees for weeks and we worked on it a couple times when it warmed up for a day. On those days the wires seem slick with condensed water and even inside the distributor cap is seemed a little damp.
I guess I could try advancing the wires two holes - that would make it 180 degrees from where we started. The old cap and rotor were tossed when he was working on it. The only thing I can think of is that the rotor might 180 degrees off?????? Anyone ever run across that on the Chinese made cap rotors?