Bluebird flew the coupe.

[shanebo]

Ill swap the coil tomorrow morning if I have time....Im keeping my fingers crossed!

[tougeagle]

Considering the paint and interior I say leave both as is and put a straight axle and 4 inches of lift under it Then, no worries about scratches or small dings

[shanebo]

Im almost kinda starting to dig the "rat" look. Its like at sturgis...there are $100,000+ bikes there but its the rat bikes that grab the most attention....That paint job bluebirds  wearing  will fetch more looks than a candy apple one ill bet...LOL......Hmmm do I hear Eagle of the month

[JayRamb]

Everytime I see the title, it reminds me of the nursery rhyme "Bluebird, Bluebird through my window"
 

[shanebo]

I always see a bluebird when I look out my kitchen window now 

[Whuntmore]

All I see are Frickin' crows!

[shanebo]

Blue bird is that georgeous 2 tone blue and rust color..LOL

[Whuntmore]

Blue bird is that georgeous 2 tone blue and rust color..LOL

Ohhh, Man!  I wasn't cluing in there.  I thought you meant the actual bird... Man, sometimes I'm really dense.  Plus, my joke bombed...

[shanebo]

couldnt figure out the spark think...swapped in a coil and still i doesnt work....Im not real sure where to go from here...I guess the distributor will be next on the list. I have juice goin to the coil but none coming out to the distributor cap,,,,what do you guys think? coil or distributor

I frustrated with the spark issue and  gave up on it today and removed 4 bags of trash. the seats are real dirty and the floor is equally....however Iused some 409 on the seat stains and with a little elbo grease they started getting brighter...I bet they will come back ok once I shampoo......all the stains appear to be spilt soda and coffee so a good shampooing should get it lookig ok.


also found this!!

[maddog]

i know you probably already checked it but is the wire going from the coil to the distributor connected and making good contact and is it in good shape. the resone i ask is i accidentally did that one day when i was working on eagle eyes and had removed the wire to do some work on the starter and then later tried to start her and couldn't figure out why she wouldn't start. i know it's an obvious thing to check but sometimes it's the most obvious things we overlook.

[Whuntmore]

I had no spark going to my plugs either.  I started replacing from the other end though,  I ended up replacing:

Coil, dist cap and I cleaned the button, wires, new plugs, and HEI.  It works now, but I practically replaced the whole ignition system.  I cleaned the wires going to the coil, and I followed them along the branch of the harness to make sure it was ok.

On mine, the coil was bad, but it had burnt out to 'look' like it had the proper Ohms.  So it fooled us. 

[philotomy]

Replacing the whole ignition system lets you do an upgrade/dress up too,If one can afford or do 1 thing per week but glad you found the faulty part.

[shanebo]

I pulled all the plugs nad they look real clean and not very old. I checked today and the coil is only like 25 dollars....The distributor is around 80 i think....Giner has a nearly new distributor that I will try swapping in this week....I tried puttng gingers coil in and still nothing at the plugs. I guess that only leaves the distributor...I supose I could have a bum ground....Its frustrating cuz I know the thing ran...I just dont know what the heck happened. I

 have the alternator to put in but I really want to get it running before I go through the grief of putting the alternator back in.....This spark thing is really bugging me!!

[tougeagle]

Some places can test your ignition module, you might want to have that looked at.....

[shanebo]

That would probably be a good Idea to do that before I go crazy buying parts...I can get one of those for 28 bucks from auto zone if it is bad....atleast I found a good door handle under the back seat...now I can atlest get into the front without going through the back.