The Fear Monger

[camoit]

OK so here is what has been going on since the day of the start up. Day 1 Did the break in that everyone has seen the video by now. Day 2 it would not start. Added in some advance to make it run. 1 week later now it's up to needing 28 degree of initial advance to start and run. Called MSD they sent pick up coils, caps rotors crap like that. Replaced the hole distributor with a Mallory Unilite optical unit, and said screw MSD. That took 4 weeks to get it all together. Then the new Mallory failed so they sent out a new pick up unit for it. It would get hot and stop working. New wires. Had many people come over check the cam timing and everything else you could think of. We could not get it to run under the 40 degrees. Pulled the cam and sent it back to Comp Cams it came back fine. Sent it to a 3rd party to recheck there numbers. They matched with in a degree or so. Replaced the gear drive with a double roller chain. Reset the cam degree, and today I started it. And you guessed it, 40 degree of advance just to make it run. WTF,F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F, For those of you that were peeked in using the live cam feed on the first page, you saw me cussing and flinging tools all around. That's not a normal thing here on this truck.
So back to square 1. Cam is good, timing is at 107 intake center line. That's 3 degrees of advance to the cam. That's spot on. WHAT THE HELL.... So for shits and giggles I asked my neighbor behind me if he had a old coil laying around. So he gave me this old coil from his Studebaker or 1934 Ford. IDK but it's old. Hooked it up and fired it up. There was a new loud squeak noise like something starting to seize up. NOW WHAT.. It made the noise 2 times. So I figured I would back off the timing to see where it would stall. $0, 35, 30, 25, now down to 18 where it started from all because the brand new MSD $125.95 coil shorted internally. So the moral of the story, DO NOT allow a high energy coil to accidentally spark with out having a wire on it going to ground or you will be in for a trouble shooting night mare.
Now I think the trany is got a problem. There is a rattling noise from down there. IDK if it is a problem yet but I will find out soon enough when it takes a dump.

See even puppy's die new too.