If everything was working before you did the work in the Distributor and now
nothing your problem must be in the distributor area. Do you have spark at any
of the other plugs? Did you maybe mess up the number 1 spark plug wire? I
wouldnt panic until you double check all of those. I put new wires on my 56
once and I was off 1-spot on the cap. I spent days trying to figure it out.
Then one day I noticed by looking at a picture I was off on the wires.
Tim
>
> From: "Roger Casagrande" <rdc2382@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2004/09/07 Tue PM 06:48:59 EDT
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: IML: 55 ignition problems
>
> My 55 Imperial has lost its "spark". The car has run from November 2003 when
>I got to about a month ago. I checked the spark by removing the #1 plug and
>with the wire attached put the plug base to the intake manifold and had
>someone turn over the engine. No spark was seen at the plug. I checked the
>coil by putting a plug with a 0.175" gap between the coil output and the
>manifold and got a solid blue spark. I changed the points and condenser and
>checked that the primary wire was not grounded when both points were open.
>
> Another note is that I have the center portion of the dash off to repair the
>radio and polish the knobs of the controls. I don't know if something in the
>ignition requires all of the dash controls and radio to be connected.
>
> I need some suggestions for further trouble shooting.
>
> Roger D. Casagrande
>
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