Thread: 250 still wont run, still just as stumped

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those appear to be the time marks, which is why I'm thinking the same thing. I pulled the dist when I saw the gears and the gear on it appears to be intact.

The gear probably is intact There is no reason for it to be broken. put the gear in a vice and try turning the rotor shaft. use a pair of chanel locks with a rag or nylon grips. If the pin is sheared it will move. if it just feels tight by hand the sheared pin can hold because of excess metal being rolled over. This realy is the only ting that makes sence. Hope I'm wrong
Good Luck
Charlie

There is one other thing. You could have a sheared key on the cam or crank The marks would still be in time but not the shafts??? just a thought

Originally Posted by DennyW

The reason I asked if that was the marks is because the picture was blurry, and it was real hard to see it. You being there, you should be able to see it clearly.

The reason I took the picture in the first place is to find the marks. between the grease and the angle, I couldnt see the marks on the crank gear. I just pushed the cam up against the radiator and snapped a shot to ID the mark.


@ Big Tracks:
I changed that when I overhauled the ignition from rotor-up. Odd thing is, when I first bought the truck, I found 12 of either them or condensors laying in the bed with varying amounts of rust on them. Perhaps this thing eats resistors? Idunno, but it's got an HEI distributor on the way so that problem will be avoided. And if the old one does check out as repairable or good, I'll have a spare to stick in the glovebox incase something goes screwy


@cffisher:
the crank key is intact, the key on the cam is unknown. any way to check without yanking the gear?

If the resistor is broken it's easy enough to see, but take a close look at the part that looks like a skinny spring about two inches or so long that provides the resistance. It could be burned or damaged.

I learned about faulty resistors several years ago when, after I had changed nearly everything on the dang truck but the body, my service station operator told me what my problem was.

Jim