Posted by rickyracer (IP: 209.20.173.110) on November 21, 1999 at 20:28:24:
In Reply to: Can anybody help me? I'm going to kill my car! posted by Jeep43 on November 21, 1999 at 20:00:07:
:along with that rig yourself up a 10 gauge jumper wire with alligator clips, (you can use them later for other things), and jump from the positive side of the battery to the positive side of the coil. That's how easy it is to steal the old cars without ignition and trans lockup.
That will bypass the ignition switch, it may be over heating and shuting off until it cools back down,
Also make sure you have the negative side of the coil to the distributer and the positive is your power supply side, And change the condensor in the distribor. and if all that don't work post the info and we'll give you some more. Still have a few tricks left.
: I've been trying to get my '73 maverick running right. I have a starting problem. The car will fire, run for a couple seconds and then just die. I rebuilt the head and cheked all valves etc., swapped carbs, checked fuel flow from the tank all the way to the carb, replaced the fuel pump checked spark, replaced plug wires, replaced plugs checked point gap changed coil. and the damn thing still wont run.
: HELP!!!