Ed Cannon said:Do you have power on the distributor while its cranking too, not just with the key on?
1981Regal said:Pull number one spark plug. Lightly stuff tissue or paper towel into the spark plug hole. Remove power wire from distributor. Bump the ignition key over til the tissue blows out. Check the balancer, marks should be close to the timing tab. Ease the balancer around to 10-12 before top dead center 0. Drop the distributor down so rotor lines up with #1 cylinder tower. Will probably need to move oil pump rod so distributor will fully seat. Hook up power to Hei. Should fire.
t01blaze said:I had an MSD distributor ignition module fail on me years ago. Car was running, just died and would not restart. It was only a few weeks old and I exchanged it for another distributor (same one). The second distributor lasted for as long as I had the car.
LS6 Tommy said:I'm not knocking MSD, but when they go, that's usually how it happens. You shut it off, go to restart it and... Nothing. That's also why we had 100% redundency in the GT1 car ignition. Two coils, two boxes & an MSD "A/B" switch.
Tommy
t5montecarlo said:Why change out the HEI in the first place?