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Well after 25 years of owning the 39 Desoto this is the first time that she would not start for me in the garage. This si what happened. I ran the old girl last week buyt she seemed to not run as smooth as she always does. So this week I tookthe dizzy cap off to check the condition of the points and the cap. I dressed the points and put the cap back on. The car would not start. Stated my dogisnotics. HAd gound at the breaker plate. the car woulod turn over real strong. Had electical current at the ign switch. Found my supply of NOS Brealer plate IGS3004A. Installed the new breaker plate set the gap. But the dizzy backinto the engine in the same position that I took it out from the block. I make reference points to insure that its going back inat the same point or rotation. The car would not start. WHY or Why. I had a freind over so we pulled the cap to watch the points. Hit the starter and he noticed that the point were not opening and that the rotor was not moving or rotating. Ok first thought did i snap something or did the oil pump break. what could it be. Well, knowing that the MoPar engineers were well schooled they did us all a really big favor when the designed the dizz shaft and mae it a slotted end. This way we alwasy know that the dizzy is right on in the correct reference or possibly 180 out of rotation. So remember this point. I then rotated the rotor by hand and did not get any resistance. Ok now you all might have figured this out. The dizzy was not fully down in the shaft and did not set into the slot. So I lossened the dizzy and pulled it up spun it to get back into the slot then tightened it back down. It still would not fire up. So remember the 180 degree point pulled it out agian just enought to rotate the rotor 180 degrees. put in back intot he slot and made sure this time that it was all the way installed. Then fired up the car and HOORAAAY. she tuned over and ran. Issue: My supidity of not putting the dizzy fully intot eh slot and not checking to make sure it was engaging the oil pump keyway. So the point always check and double check your work. For some of us we do not have to work on the cars that much and we get allitle forgetful as we get older. Lesson well learned. Rich Hartung desoto1939@aol.com

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Nice mid 60"s day today and I had time so feast your eyes! One thing I DIDN'T do with the quiet ride floor kit was to glue the insulation down to the floor....way too much work if I EVER need to pull everything. I taped the silver backed felting together and taped down the edges in the foot wells to hold it in place and put the mat over it all.

Aint this the way it is sometimes. Sounds like a bad connection somewhere, sounds like you had a great time, better this happened in the driveway and not in the wrong side of town or on the side of a freeway...