Y2K -- that's funny, I concluded that my truck was also not compatible
when it died late Friday afternoon. Turned over, but little or no
fire. I got it back into the shop, deciding that I may as well change
my points and rotor, but didn't see anything wrong until I disconnected
the old points and the condenser wire was just hanging there: it had
come undone from the condenser. It was a new condenser that I'd had
around for years, so I don't know why it broke but I put the old one
back in, finished with the other new parts, and it still wouldn't
start. Oh well, maybe I should gap the new points? That did it!
I later found some other weird tuning things, like the timing was way
advanced. When I set it to 4 degrees, the truck ran OK at first but
backfired on hard acceleration. I found out that the carb port that I
was using for my vacuum advance didn't have any vacuum for it -- still
don't know what it's for. I found a different port that did have
vacuum, and went out and indulged in the sound that v-8 makes when I hit
the secondaries on the Quadrajet. Since the truck was getting about 15
mpg before, I hope I haven't made the gas mileage worse. But it runs
good and doesn't seem to need the choke for as long when starting up
cold.
Good luck,
Ed Miller
'58 Apache Short Fleetside
Perry wrote: I had a similar problem with my 58, before you take the
truck apart check in
side the distributor and look at the internal ground wire. It runs from
the
Breaker plate to the distributor body usually at the vacuum advance
slide
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