Help Needed

[waxer]

This might sound stupid, but ground the coil wire, and with the dist. cap off, have someone crank the engine over while you look to see if the rotor goes around.
Over the years I've had two dist. sieze and snap their drives, varnish build up in the housings.

If his snapped, why does he have to get somebody to crank the motor over to verify?

Why can't he just take the cap off and spin the rotor by hand? If it spins freely then I'd say the shaft snapped.

 

[Brendan_91XJ]

Not the rotor, and I am getting spark at the plugs as well

 

[Brendan_91XJ]

Well it started, I don't know why. I will give it a hour ans see if she starts again

 

[GrimmJeeper]

weird... well at least you got it going... maybe it was flooded?