That don't make no sence!

So, I'm trying to breath life back into my new ride, a 62 F-100 unibody, that I pulled out of a field. Before I took it of the trailer I poured a little gas down the carb, and turned it over. Right off the bat it started to come to life! I kept it alive by sprinkling gas into the carb. Great! this baby will run!
Then I found a whole tune-up kit that came with it, cap, rotor, points, condenser, wires, installed it, Now I get no spark to the plugs! (should'a never thrown the old stuff away) Even tried a new cap and rotor. Plugs are fine, average wear, I'm getting fire to the distributor but nothing to the plugs. This should be an easy fix. What am I missing?

 

You said the kit came with it - is the kit that old? Maybe the contacts on the plug wires are bad.

 

Try changing the condensor. Also make sure the points are making contact.
Butch

 

I'll bet it's the points... Good luck, lets see some pics of the ol'Guy!
I've got a 61'

 

Condenser should be good. But it was with the kit that came with the truck. All of the kit looked good, sealed in plastic, etc. Maybe the gap is off. I eyeballed it, looks to be about 25 to 30 thous. Tons of spark when I open them.
What's the easiest way to post pics, I have a bunch.

 

Go to photo bucket and open a free account. From there you can resize your pics and what not. Every time I eyeball my gap (that sound weird), My truck wont fire... This is your problem, I'm sure. Use a match book for a feeler guage if you don't have one handy. It's what I do. All my feeler gauges end up @ the bottom of the tool box an rusty.

 

Hers the old man as I found it.

 

That things cool. Has it been clipped? (IFS)

 

If your looking for best guesses it may be the points are grounding.. Possibly an insulating washer installed wrong...

 

well with out looking at all the other suggestions im going to say condensor..as long as the points are operational, coil is good and has good power to it and the timing and cap , wires and plugs are decent..i know forom experiance those little condensors suck when they go bad..some times you will get intermittent spark other times nothing at all. check that component first and move on from there with a new one.

 

20 to 30 thousanths may be way too much..try 18 at first

 

I'd suspect new old points have oxidixed, clean 'em and try it. Next bets, condenser or shorted wire in distributor, last maybe the old ignition resistor got bumped and broke.

 

Coil wire fully seated in the dizzy cap???? Are you sure you have the wires in the right places on the cap?? Not unusual for nrand new condensors to be crap. For the 4 bucks get another one.

 

What do you mean you're getting fire to the dizzy? Did you leave out the rotor?

 

It was the gap! Now the little bugger runs like a champ! It also helps to put the rotor back in too! Thanks for all the help every one!
FYI Ford truckers, The rear brake cylinders for 61 thu 66 4x4s are the same as the fronts on F-100s! Much cheeper too!

 

It is surprising how important that little rotor gizmo is. You would think that they would make something that necessary a little bigger.

By the way, I think that I may have done that same thing a time or two.

Neal

 

Outa make them little suckers from prange plastic...