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G'day Fellas,

After cracking the shits and abandoning my NC after the coil died and then refused to start after it was replaced back in July of last year I finally got around to working on it again and discovered that my lack of spark was caused by one of the pins backing out of the coil plug. I fixed that and got it "running", but it's still not right.

 

It runs on 4 cylinders (you can take the spark plugs off 1 and 2 and it keeps running) but only if you reverse the spark plug leads for 3 and 4. It's got a brand new dizzy, coil, TFI, etc. Any ideas?

 

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Did you use the correct firing order roller windsors use the 13726548 order like a Cleveland not 15486372 like a pre 86 302 windsor
Not quite the solution but you fellas were on the right track. I had another go at it this morning, pulled all the leads off and went to put them back on again just to be sure. That's when I noticed that the firing order stamped on the posts on the el cheapo Chinese dizzy cap was wrong, 5 and 3 were reversed. Swapped 'em over, cranked it and it fired right up!

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Not quite the solution but you fellas were on the right track. I had another go at it this morning, pulled all the leads off and went to put them back on again just to be sure. That's when I noticed that the firing order stamped on the posts on the el cheapo Chinese dizzy cap was wrong, 5 and 3 were reversed. Swapped 'em over, cranked it and it fired right up!

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