[DeTomaso] Ignition truble

[Jørn C. Olsen]

This makes sence to me!
I changes the camshaft at the same time I installed the new distributor.  I 
will take out the distributor and check!

Thanks!

J.C
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Vallee" <mike.vallee at yahoo.com>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>; <joernco at online.no>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:31 AM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Ignition truble


> Hi,
>
> I had the exact same symptoms while diving to Las Vegas for this year's 
> Fun Rally. I also have an MSD billet
> distributor and 6AL box for the ignition. Four hundred miles into my trip 
> it started running very poorly and
> backfiring like crazy. This left me stranded at the side of the road in a 
> small town where I knew no one.
>
> A bunch of the NorCal Pantera Club (PCNC) guys came to my aid and spent 
> the day troubleshooting my car.
> They found a number of things that looked like they could have caused the 
> problem, but none of them fixed
> the backfiring and poor running. This very knowledgeable group included 
> Mike Drew, Larry Finch  and  Marcus
> Smith among others. After spending *all day* and half the evening working 
> on my car (incredibly good folks) it
> was clear that it was not going to Vegas that day. I pretty much had to 
> force them to go on without me as it went
> against the "Leave no man behind" credo of PCNC, POCA and it seems, 
> Pantera owners everywhere.
>
> Even after dropping me back at the local hotel Marcus kept working on my 
> car, stranded now in his garage. It was
> after midnight when he called me up and said "I found the problem". It 
> turned out to be a *very* badly worn
> distributor gear. The MSD billet distributor comes with a bronze gear that 
> can wear down very quickly when mating
> up with a new cam gear. According to MSD (and other sources), the first 
> such bronze gear can wear out in the first
> 1000-2000 miles. The second one will last nearly forever (their words, not 
> mine). Check yours out. The gear teeth
> are normally about 3mm wide. Mine had worn down to knife edges.
>
> Anyway, the following morning Marcus drove me the 60 miles back in to 
> Sacramento to get a new gear and spent
> the rest of the day installing it, timing the car etc. With the gear 
> replaced the car ran perfectly once more. After all
> the time spent by others to get me there I couldn't not continue on to Las 
> Vegas and so set out the following morning
> and made it down only a day late.
>
> I can't thank the PCNC folks enough for getting me past my Ignition 
> Trouble, and down to Vegas.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --mike v        #5473
>
> ----
>
> Hi!
> On my first drive this summer with my Pantera it started to misfire and 
> lost power.
> Tried to change the spark plugs and the cables but same result.  On friday 
> we checked
> the ignition timing and it showed 0 degrees.  I don`t understand that 
> because the
> distributor was not loose and we timed it to 30 degrees when we had it in 
> the dyno last year.
> We timed it back to 30 degrees and it became better but I can feel it is 
> something wrong
> when I drive it.  It has not full power and has a small klicking sound in 
> the left exhaust.
> I run it with an MSD Billett distributor and a MSD 6AL
> ignition box.
> Can it be the distributor pin who is giving up slowly?
> Anybody??
>
> J.C
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