I am at a point where I want to fire the engine sitting in the frame Of my 41. its a 283 chevy bare frame no wiring other then What I have set up to fire the motor. Heres where im at. I have a cable hooked to a battery from the B post on the starter. I have a ground from the Battery to the frame. I have a wire from R Starter to the Positive on the coil. I have the Black wire from the distributor to the neg on the coil. I have relocated the red wire (Pertronics ignitor installed in distributor) to the battery I have a remote starter button hooked up Battery and the S off the starter. The Engine has fuel to carb It sounds like it wantes to fire but one I let up on the button off the remote it dies. What am I missing to keep the engine running? Im trying to get this fired today so any help would be great!
You need a wire to power the coil when the engine is running, not just when cranking. Run a wire from the battery to the positive on the coil, and lose the one from the R on the starter, it will no longer be nessessary. Good luck, -Abone.
that's it........make sure you can take the wire off easy (like an alligator clip) because that's going to be the only way to shut the motor off.
A bone / oldtimer, Thanks that did it! Now I have an electric oil presure gauge on this , when the motor ran no oil pressure. I have the wire from the sender to the gauge and then from the gauge to ground. The motor is not grounded would that make a difference?
sender needs to be grounded, gage needs to be grounded. I always screw a mechanical gage into a fresh engine, and check the pressure when I pre lube it, and watch the gage when it starts up too.
Thanks ill put a mech gauge on it. When I prelubed it/ primed the oil pump I wathced it flow out the top part of the distributor housing. Can I just screw a pressure gauge in to the port im picking up presure from? say like a 0- 60 psi gauge?
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