Issue with crane cams hi-6 cd ignition
reason I asked about the vacuum advance was that possibly the mechanical advance plate (if it is in transition at 2500 rpm) is altering the pickup clearance?
I could see wondering that with a stock mopar distributor that I didn't know much about.
But this is a brand new firecore 50 unit wit less then 50 miles on it.
When I pulled this distributor out of the box I checked the reluctor teeth gap at rest and I hooked my mighty vac to it and applied 30hg of vaccum pulling the vaccum arm all the way over and held it there while I went around each tooth and checked the clearence and each one was dead in at .008.
Some of the boots on my spark plug wires are cracked, and this issue got even worse when I tried to remove some of the plug wires to check on cylinder 7 and cylinder 8's spark plugs since they were the ones that looked to not be sparking as hot as the others the last time I pulled all the plugs to check on them.
Anyways i broke a couple of the plug wires trying to get them off this last time to check on the plugs and i put them back together the best I could and that's when the problem got even worse.
So I'm ordering a new set of plug wires and a new coil this morning and paying a little more for 2 day shipping to have them here by the weekend.
I'll start with the new plug wires first, if it's still acting up I'll put the new coil on it, if it's still acting up with the new coil and new plug wires then I'll ether make an appointment with a shop that has some equiptment to track down what's going on like a spark analyzer and ollithiscope or I'll go to Napa and buy an Msd digital 6 cd ignition box that they have there and wire that sob in and see what happens.
Just not sure if it will make me mad
Enough to go and drop 250 bucks down on a new ignition box, cause if it turns
Out not be ignition related at all then I'm stuck with 2 coils and 2 cd ignition boxes, not that I would have all that hard of a time selling one of the boxes and coils but I wouldn't get what I paid for them.
So I guess we'll see how this falls
Into place, I'm hoping to discover what it is without spending too much money.
I need new plug wires anyways, I broke a few of them and some of the boots are cracked and they are 3 years old too boot.
So I'm basically buying a coil not knowing if I need it or not, if the plug wires solve it, and i don't have to install the coil to try it I can return the coil.