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I just woke myself up with a hard snore, I wasn't even aware I was asleep but my thoughts didn't make sense so I should have known.

I am now the the old lady who can fall asleep just like that on the rocking chair LOL.

When i was younger, I thought sleep was a waste of time and now I live for those precious moments on the ol Davenport with my feet up and cozy warm in a refreshing sleep.
What should get you more is the fact that you woke "yourself" up snoring. I hate when that happens.
 
What should get you more is the fact that you woke "yourself" up snoring. I hate when that happens.
The one that makes me crazy is dreaming that I am snoring (because I am in real life), but not waking up and the snoring part becomes a vivid part of the dream.

The one that really freaks me out is waking up with hypnopompic sleep paralysis. I have experienced it off and on since I was a kid. Fairly normal in about 10% of people, but still a weird experience.

Hypnopompic Sleep Paralysis
During sleep, your body alternates between REM (rapid eye movement) and NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep. One cycle of REM and NREM sleep lasts about 90 minutes. NREM sleep occurs first and takes up to 75% of your overall sleep time. During NREM sleep, your body relaxes and restores itself. At the end of NREM, your sleep shifts to REM. Your muscles are "turned off" during REM sleep. If you become aware before the REM cycle has finished, you may feel that you cannot move or speak despite seeing your surroundings. This happens because the chemicals released by your body to shut down muscle movement (so you don’t physically act out your dreams) haven’t cleared before consciousness begins. Slight eye opening captures your surroundings in the conscious mind and your brain incorporates the image into the REM dream state making a hybrid experience between reality and dream. You believe you are acting in the real World but are still only acting in the dream state vividly enhanced with real World imagery woven in.
 
I find I argue with myself when i am in a sleep blending with real world surroundings.

I confuse myself and the argument against myself doesn't even make sense. Then i start raising my voice in the dream and that's usually when the snoring becomes part of the dream and things start getting loud.

I often doze when i have loud music on which kinda makes things more confusing
 
Sure, it could be...or maybe something else. Make it run properly by jumping first and then back track the circuits that may be at fault. Don’t just throw parts at it.

I have no power to the lead wire for the ballast resistor. I have the ballast resistor gutted with a jumper in place. So it is either a connection at the bulkhead, the connection at harness at base of column or the switch.
 
I have no power to the lead wire for the ballast resistor. I have the ballast resistor gutted with a jumper in place. So it is either a connection at the bulkhead, the connection at harness at base of column or the switch.
See you got this. Just troubleshoot each part of the system, rinse and repeat.
 
I have no power to the lead wire for the ballast resistor. I have the ballast resistor gutted with a jumper in place. So it is either a connection at the bulkhead, the connection at harness at base of column or the switch.
But you have power at cranking to make it run. The ballast resistor has two power feeds, one after the resistor for crank and one before for run. Do you read power to the crank circuit?
 
If the run circuit is not functioning, but crank is then it may be a bad ignition switch, bad bulkhead connection or a further failure somewhere else in the run circuit.

I always like to start at the end of the line and make sure the engine will run with a jumped power line to the coil before working backward through the system. Otherwise, you are just starting in the middle making assumptions about either end.
 
If the run circuit is not functioning, but crank is then it may be a bad ignition switch, bad bulkhead connection or a further failure somewhere else in the run circuit.

I always like to start at the end of the line and make sure the engine will run with a jumped power line to the coil before working backward through the system. Otherwise, you are just starting in the middle making assumptions about either end.
What he said. But i dinna elaborate...
 
Ok, riddle me this. I put in the jumper wire. Fired right up and ran. Needed to disconnect wire to kill as suspected. Then hooked up again, started, made my throttle adjustments and disconnected the wire instead of turning key off first. Stayed running until I turned the key off. 6 more starts and runnings without a jumper needed. Key switch?
 
Ok, riddle me this. I put in the jumper wire. Fired right up and ran. Needed to disconnect wire to kill as suspected. Then hooked up again, started, made my throttle adjustments and disconnected the wire instead of turning key off first. Stayed running until I turned the key off. 6 more starts and runnings without a jumper needed. Key switch?
Could be.
When i pulled the ignition switch out of the fargo it was dead.
I pounded the contact cleaner to it and kept working it. Didnt take long and it has worked flawlessly ever since.
 
Ok, riddle me this. I put in the jumper wire. Fired right up and ran. Needed to disconnect wire to kill as suspected. Then hooked up again, started, made my throttle adjustments and disconnected the wire instead of turning key off first. Stayed running until I turned the key off. 6 more starts and runnings without a jumper needed. Key switch?
Sounds like intermittent contact in the key switch. Like TJ said, clean the snot out of it.
 
Ok, riddle me this. I put in the jumper wire. Fired right up and ran. Needed to disconnect wire to kill as suspected. Then hooked up again, started, made my throttle adjustments and disconnected the wire instead of turning key off first. Stayed running until I turned the key off. 6 more starts and runnings without a jumper needed. Key switch?
Intermitant connection in the bulkhead connector...
 
Thanks guys. I will check it out when I get a chance. It was nice for it to start on the first half revolution each time and idle down to about 900 in park now. Have to go to boneyard to get an aluminum Corvair steering box and pitman arm for my son's Model A tomorrow.
 
Good Morning!!
Its apparently crickets in here on this first Saturday of the new year.
 
Well neither do I but I'm up at going. First cup is almost history.
Steve I see your almost done with your current tour. I'm sure your ready to go after three weeks. Family will be happy to see you, and you be happy with some wrench turning!!
 
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