Rick put it on and I watched. Now she won't idle at all.
Check the wire to the idle cut off solenoid. It should get power from the positive side of the coil. Does it click when the power is turned on and off? If not, there's your problem. If it's clicking, you may need to adjust the idle speed and/or mixture screw . . . or you may need to adjust the choke. I'd bet a little bit of money on the idle cut off not having power or not working . . . Like David said, these things "always" work decent right out of the box . . . and seldom need much more that a slight tweeking to have them working top notch.
I will ask him about the timing but I'm thinging no because he put it on and I started it up.
Was a timing gun involved? If not, the answer is definitly NO.
So the timing needs reset?
If the points are replaced or adjusted, the timing needs to be reset. If you loosen the distributor hold down clamp, the timing needs to be adjusted. If you replace the distributor, the timing MUST be set . . .
If you don't use a timing light, you're just guessing. You can set it "by ear" if you don't mind buring holes in the tops of your pistons (if you don't already know, that is a REALLY BAD thing to do).
He did look at the distributor cap and say hmmm this is a little burnt I didn't ask questions.
My first bug was wabbling like crazy going down the road, so replaced my motor mounts. It still wabbled going down the road so I put new brakes on it. That didn't help either so I rebuilt the engine and replaced the tail lights. I forgot to torque a couple of the rod bolts . . . when it slung a rod and was only running on 3 cylinders, it made the wabbling worse. So I took it to the tire store to have the tires ballanced. They said they could ballance three of them, but that one I had been running flat on for the past month would have to be replaced. :roll: Whatever. They replaced the tire and ballanced them, but my engine was still running like crap and making the car wabble going down the road. So I bought another bug and started over. Problem solved.
My point is, don't throw money and parts at something without having a clue what's really wrong. You might get lucky every now and then, but most of the time you will only make the original problem harder to figure out. Wouldn't it be sad if Feebee's running problems were really due to a burnt distributor cap?
