Re: Starting trouble help needed.

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, John W Rosa wrote:

Look at the ignition. When the starter is cranking, a terminal on
the starter solenoid provides direct battery to the ignition box.
In the ON position battery is fed through a resistor or
harness-embedded resistance wire. If that feed is broken, you'll
get spark only while cranking.

Could also be a marginal ignition box (what year? Dumpaspark or
PrestNoLite?), marginal coil, but that seems less likely.

Duraspark boxes especially fail in strange ways. I keep a spare
in my Rambler.

After all that cranking, it could be flooded and then a weak spark
would not fire it; it didn't necessarily get any worse.