Up On Blocks

So after doing some research at the car "cemetary" across the street I came to the conclusion that I had the wrong rotor on the distributor. I happened to grab one while I was there and tried it on Diane when I got home, it fit like a glove. The gap I had previously seen with my old rotor was no longer there, and I noticed that the new rotor actually touched the top of the cap. With the correct, or so I'm assuming, rotor in I tried to start it up again. Still no luck, but I wasn't able to check and see if there was a spark or not so I don't know if I'm getting a closed circuit now or not. I'm thinking that I'm going to purchase a new rotor of the same size I happened to find at the cemetary. If that doesn't work then I might try replacing the condenser.

Since I couldn't test the spark last night, I decided to move on to a project I could complete. I decided to put her up on blocks since the poor old tires weren't holding air too well. When we picked up Diane, she had been parked out in the field without anyone messing with her too much so her tires were able to hold air without any problem. Before I put her on blocks though I had to remove the old tires and wheels. After soaking them multiple times with Liquid Wrench and WD-40, I was able to penetrate the rust. With a little persuasion from an impact wrench the bolts started coming loose. Once the bolts were loose I lifted the front end up onto jack stands and removed the tires. Needless to say I feel much better now about leaning on her, before I felt like she was going to try to roll away every time I leaned on her.