Recent content by BobRip

I did have the fuse holder at the starter fail on my 422.

Fining a voltage drop on a component under load will tell you a lot. I wish I was there to help.

check voltages while cranking. If you get more than a half of a volt drop on a cable, Then something is wrong with that cable. Battery voltage should not drop more than 2 volts while cranking. This is harder for me to describe than to do. Since the lights are not working you need to...

Nice simple modification to make it work with the PT. Good idea.

Good wife. You need both.

I keep a battery maintainer on my 422. This covers losses from battery internal losses as well.

No points or condenser I am pretty sure.

I took the covers off and left them off.

On the coil gap I suggest having two sets of feeler gauges. It made it a lot easier to keep the gap even. So put one set of gauges near each end of the coil.

I wonder if that would slow down warmup in cold weather. That’s why I have not done it. I have replaced the thermostat twice in 22 years.

It does sound like a missing ground. There is a ground on the key switch. Check to make sure it is good.

Do the lights actually work when they are turned on?

I welded mine back together before it broke. That was many years ago. You could add extra bracing.

Ok. Thanks. I guess I figured they would change the name to a 430, since it is gasoline. I could see why they kept 1430 since the attachments from the Diesel version work on the gasoline version.

I thought the 1430 had been discontinued.