1940 Ford Deluxe

682bear said:
The hard part will be working the new wires back through the steel tube that they are routed through.
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Either a little welding wire or a good piece of string + talc should help pull the new leads through, starting with the furthest one from the cap end.

Had to do something similar when fitting the wiring through the front wing stays/supports on a 1935 MG PA My late step-father and I restored. Not like we had a sparky's wiring rat we could have used.
 
Would be willing to bet that some spark may be leaking to the metal tube.

Plug wires can cause many issues, our pickup in 76 ran great on flat land, the trucks were passing us on the grapevine, new wires and ran good, those were resistor wires which is common , basically graphite string in rubber.

Hopefully you can get wire wires that will fit.

The old coils maybe only output 30 kv, the gap takes 5kv without fuel or compression.

The higher available voltage in New cars results in greater current in the spark.

The resistance in the wires greatly reduces the available current, results are very weak spark that may not ignite the fuel well.

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I haven't updated this since the end of February, so here goes...

I ordered a new set of plug wires... they arrived the last week in March. Unfortunately, the first week in April, I was hit with an episode of asthma that put me down for a while.

For the last two months, I've been on medication/ steroids that keep my hands shaking too badly to really do anything. For a few weeks, I was having issues feeding myself or holding a cup of coffee...

The new plug wires have to be soldered to the end clips where they clip into the inner distributor caps... I knew there was no way I would be doing that as shaky as I was.

Yesterday, I decided to give it a try... and I managed to get the plug wires installed... and cranked the car.

It still didn't run very well... cylinder #8 was still not firing at all... it has a newly rebuilt distributor, new condenser, new plug wires, and new plugs... and still isn't firing #8...

This morning, out of frustration, I reinstalled the old distributor and the old condenser... the car cranked right up and ran very good! So I then swapped the old condenser out for the new condenser to see if that was the problem... it runs fine with the new condenser.

The newly rebuilt distributor is obviously the problem... I'll have to contact the company that rebuilt it and see what they suggest.

The old distributor was replaced because the points are nearing the end of their useful life. It is a dual point distributor, so it needs to be set and adjusted on a machine.

I did finally manage to drive the car down the road and see how it drives with the new radial tires! It rides SMOOTH!
:beer:

-Bear
 
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