Sparky

Moosey, when you hold the carb's float chamber cover upside down, the float's line should be parallel with the cover's line. A "level" float. I hope Lee has fingernails left by the time you get your Jeep running---

I'm sittin on my ass as usual..

Lee's in fine form tonight!

I am watching this thread (got a few to sit) with great interest. Nevermind Hajji's nagging and staring at bins of parts, a fully-built jeep that's bashing Bo has me growing more paranoid about my buggy and timeline. It will be a few days now until I can buckle down and get busy, BUT I WILL.

Jeep for sale.  Cheap.

I'm tired of this.  This is zero fun.

After mopping up the flood and resetting the float, the engine started pretty quickly...and very roughly.  She ran for a minute spewing out a large dirty gray smoke cloud.  I pulled the throttle out a bit and it seemed to smooth out.

With about 3/4" throttle, the vacuum gauge read about 20, steady.

Then she quit.

i could get her to start somewhat easily, but it was always a rough idle and it never lasted long.

I looked at the points and they had a burn mark.  They did not have many miles on them...maybe 10-15.

Installed another set, and got a decent blue spark.  But then it disappeared.  I earlier I went thru the test to check the condenser and it didn't appear to be the culprit.  I checked to see if power was reaching the coil.  Yes.  I swapped out the coil with a new one.  Smallish spark at points.

Couldnt get the jeep to start again.  Pulled the wire from #1 plug, held it close to the top of the plug and rolled the engine using my hand crank.  No spark.

Repeated this on #3.  Barely witnessed an orange spark at the gap.

So now I'm thinking it is time to chase an electrical gremlin.

With the ignition on, points closed, I can take a screwdriver tip and open the points.  Sometimes I get a spark, sometimes I don't.  Never does the spark seem impressive.

I can hook up alligator clips (with dizzy cover off) to the incoming coil wire on the distributor and the stationary side of the points.  When points are closed, my multimeter reads 0.01 on continuity.  When the points open, it reads 0.31.  I would have thought I'd see infinity at that point.

Also, I can move the alligator clip on the stationary side of the points top anywhere else on the distributor and it will read 0.28-0.31 for continuity.  

Would this indicate a potential internal grounding in the dizzy, thus reducing the strength of my spark?

seriously, missing 3' putts is more enjoyable than this garage misery.

It's a 6 volt internal coil from Napa/Echlen.  It's the exact same one that I've been using for 7 years.