On the rare occaision that a cylinder fires, the exhaust seems to be free flowing. I have double-double checked. My engine has been assembled correctly. The chains are right, the valves are right, the right piston is TDC at on the right stroke, (When I pulled the dizzy, it was right the first time, and I put it back 180 out) and I verified that the distributor is on #1 on the right stroke. Adjusted so that timing light reads 13 BTDC. No guessing anymore, I'm positive. After putting it all back together today, I gave it just a couple cranks to see what it would do, plus I wanted to put the timing light on it, and it fired 3 cylinders noticably. The next thing I'm going to look at is the possibility of the spark being too weak. What I view as strong enough, may very well not be. --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> wrote: > Just a thought on a lark: > > How much exhaust pressure do your feel? Is it possible your catalytic > converter is stopped up? Mine did. > > Bill Robertson > #5939 > > >--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote: > > Ok, so far I've done the following: > > > > Cleaned and shined the braided ground from engine to frame, the > > battery ground on the passenger side frame, the other end where it > > hooks to the battery, cut off and reterminated the positive battery > > cable at battery end (was corroded), and put a whole new terminal on > > the end. No improvement. Engine still cranks very slowly. > > > >