Re: 1951 C wont start

Posted by Paul Shuler on July 19, 2007 at 19:53:51 from (170.29.248.3):

In Reply to: 1951 C wont start posted by Greg Burns on July 19, 2007 at 19:34:44:

This is just a guess Greg. I would say it is 180 out of time. When we got my dads old C the plug wires where in the wrong order. Someone had got it bad out of time and instead of timeing it they switched the wires around. It would run but rough. It would belch flames and blow oil out of the breather. These old girls are easy to time. Bring the #1 cyl up to top dead center on compression stroke. You can pull the front plug and have someone turn the motor over while you hold your thumb over the hole. You will feel a rush of air when it is comeing up on compression. You can look in the hole with a light and see the top of the piston and look through the inspection hole under the clutch houseing and the timeing mark {hard to see sometimes} should be lined up on the flywheel. When your sure it is on TDC compression pull the dist cap and the rotor should be pointing at the #1 post of the cap. If it is not you may have to pull the mag or dist depending on what you have and adjust it till its pointing the rotor at #1. This should get you close to a running machine. But since the plug wires where in the wrong order this would be my best guess to try. I'm sure others with more wisdom than I will jump in here soon.
Paul

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