Dave8N in Pa
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Others have tried to help and I'm grateful but nothing seems to work. My 8N front dist. wont start. It ran good for a couple of years but this year it started to ping under heavy load. It even got to the point it started missing under heavy load. If I dropped a gear it ran fine. I finally have it home and am trying to fix it. I checked the spark and it was orange. I put on a new coil. I have a nice blue spark but it only started one time after that and wouldn't start again. I still have blue spark. I took the dist. out and checked the bushings and there is no play in them. I'm sure I could have made a mistake but it has good spark on all 4 plugs. So I assume the dist. and EI are ok. Tried to start it on ether but that didn't work. I have new AL 437 plugs and I just dried and burned them and tried to start it, but it doesn't even try to fire. While I had the plugs out I turned it over many times to clear the cylinders. I checked the volts in and out of coil with it in my hand and got 12.6v. with the coil on the dist. it reads about 5v on the top post. The plug wires are in same order as before and all the plugs are firing. I cleaned fuel sediment bowl and put in new elbow with screen. I took the carb apart and cleaned it but it wasn't bad(rebuilt it a couple of years ago) and gas flows freely from drain plug. I checked the spark with a 1/4 inch gap and they all jump with blue spark. I think I've tried everything others have suggested and nothing seems to work. Any ideas from you or anybody have been and will be appreciated. Thanks, Dave