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Michael Sheik 08-01-2007 09:52:04 199.153.205.246 26465 Report to Moderator	Been a long time since I posted here but if you will remember back a few months ago I finished restoring this truck and have been leisure driving it around close and spends most of its time parking in shed. The other evening i decided to start it and drive it a few miles. It started easily and I let it set and idle about 3 or 4 minutes before the drive and when I was getting ready to crawl in it just died like you had turned the key off. I assumed it was just being spastic. Crawled in and cranked the starter and it wouldn't fire a single lick. Choked it for a second and wouldn't start. I have no fire at the distributor. NOTE: I converted this over to 12V neg. ground if that makes any difference. Can someone give me check pointers so I'm not scratching my head bare. [Reply]  [No Email]
DaveS 08-01-2007 17:22:38 24.164.107.72 26475 Report to Moderator	Re: '55 Ford F-600 Just Died! in reply to Michael Sheik, 08-01-2007 09:52:04   Sounds like you burned up the points. Do you have an inline resistor going to the coil? You either need that or a coil with a built in resistor. Thats the first thing I'd check.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Michael Sheik 08-02-2007 04:37:28 199.153.205.246 26480 Report to Moderator	Re: Re: '55 Ford F-600 Just Died! in reply to DaveS, 08-01-2007 17:22:38   I remember seeing that porcelain resistor on the firewall on my 59 Ford truck but couldn't see one on this thing. Maybe it didn't have one with being the old 6V Pos. ground. Now that it is 12V Neg. ground I could be putting too much juice to the points. Why would it wait 4 months and probably 75 to 100 miles run time to do it? You would have thought it would have burned up right away.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Jon Hagen 08-02-2007 06:39:12 12.175.230.59 26484 Report to Moderator	Re: Re: Re: '55 Ford F-600 Just Died! in reply to Michael Sheik, 08-02-2007 04:37:28   They will run for a while without a resistor,but point and coil life will be short do to overheating. If running 12V to the stock 6V coil without a resistor,maybe the coil primary went open ? Check with a test light to see if you have power to the coil, then see if you get power through the coil with the points open or dist to coil wire disconnected. Find where the primary voltage ends to find the failed component. Going from 6V pos ground to 12V neg ground means you should also switch the coil primary connections. For 12V neg ground you need to connect the dist to the coil terminal marked - and the wire from the ignition switch, through the resistor to the + coil terminal.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Michael Sheik 08-02-2007 07:03:03 199.153.205.246 26485 Report to Moderator	Re: Re: Re: Re: '55 Ford F-600 Just Died! in reply to Jon Hagen, 08-02-2007 06:39:12   Thanks guys for all the input. I will check into this in a day or two and let you know what I found. Jon, i was hoping you would pick up on this post as you helped me thru the 12V conversion if you remember that.   [Reply]  [No Email]