Recent content by Abchoppers

Scratch that, figured it out. Blue horn wire and blue turn signal wire were switched Thank you anyway ,

Hi all, 56 Merc and my turn signals stopped working. They were always touchy and I had to push down on the indicator rod hard to get them to work, so I figured it was the indicator switch and changed it out with a new one. Feels much better but still no turn signals working. I also checked the...

My mercomatic shifted a little hard and had a slight slip when I first got it. I tried Lucas transmission fix after reading a lot of positive reviews. It’s night and day, shifts smooth with zero slip. It helped immediately and you don’t have to drain any fluid, just add the Lucas in with the...

Got mine from speedway motors but it was listed on eBay, better price than their website

It looks like I’m back in business! Distributor install went pretty good last night, but the mistake I made was not positioning the vacuum advance when I installed it so it ended up hitting the manifold when I tried to advance the timing. Today as a test I moved all the plug wires over one and...

Thanks for the pics, it confirms that I have a 56 or older distributor. My new one is coming today and will be my first distributor install. I’ve read a lot about how to make it go smooth and watched a few videos, so fingers crossed.

I watched every ignition video you have done, great info and very helpful for identifying different years. Thank you!

I ended up ordering the pertronix complete distributor with electronic ignition, I’ve heard the same about finding reliable points these days. Thanks for the info

Thank you, it’s Verona green and classic white. I like it on my Merc, but I think black is the way to go on a small bird 👍

I thought it ran decent before so I’m pretty excited to get a new distributor in there 😁

Thanks for the replies. Yblocksforever was where I read up on most of this, I just wasn’t sure which distributor I had. So I definitely want to change it out and I was thinking of exactly what Phil described. You guys think this one would fit...

56 Mercury 312, let me first say I’ve been fighting an issue for about 2 weeks and I think I’m close to solving it, that’s only because of the things I’ve learned from you guys so thank you again. Car was breaking up, sputtering on acceleration, missing a lot. After doing all the checks I...

I checked the neutral switch on the steering column, I found a wire that was jumping two wires together, I’m guessing this is to bypass the safety switch since I just found out the car starts in all gears. So while not a good thing, it’s prob not the problem with the no crank. I feel like it’s...

Test light shows hot a coil terminal with key turned to run, also shows hot on starter solenoid in start position, yet right now the car is also starting normally. I’ll try and test these again next time I get a no crank, it’s just so random it can be once and not again for days or 5 times in a...

It’s a no crank, electric pump is a primer. I only mentioned that because the ignition does turn on the fuel pump, thinking maybe that rules out ignition but I don’t know