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I don't know maybe vaccume hose failure, get out the timing light and chalk, revit up etc. Kinda sorta sounds like you're "running out of spark".
Sounds almost like your spark advance is failing, and letting the spark angle slip back to no load or worse.
It's defending it's self. Ok you replaced the "tumbler" not the electrical guts. The tumbler came out and back in funny, more is wrong, open the...
If the flasher didn't help then it's no current flow at all, therefore an open either in "big red" or "big black". It all went out at once seemingly.
If the plugs are wet and oil smells like gas, you're probably more running out of spark than running out of gas. Crank it with the plugs out blow...
I guess you'd have to ask yourself, are they suits or engineers? Do they want you for administration or more? Are you gonna be "Tucker's" right...
Try Atlantic Diesel Lodi NJ, they get all the bus'es forever.
If you have spark at a plug that's good. Rule for points, if it starts with a Ping they're too close and if it won't start at all they're too far...
I never considered running the engine extra's off teleflex cables like a tach? It would be nice pumps and distributors could just be stuffed...
Inside the socket things are touching eachother. Maybe clean w/scotchbrite and spray or compressed air inside lamp socket?
I think you have a coupla problems. Easy one first, headlight. Ring bulb for ohms, two terminals should read to one, more to each other. Check...
To answer your question, when you jumper pos to the coil, it eliminates the keywswitch, and the crank/run circuit. Try this, jumper hot, crank and...
One of the coolest things about the military then was all the cars. So many moved to one base and never left. A guy would rotate out sell for what...
Some guys used to cheat and stud one starter bolt for ease of future replacement. Mabye it looks like an electrical terminal??
Older cars love to vapor lock, you might need to wrap tinfoil around your fuel line to reflect heat away.
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