I don't know what is wrong yet. The motor turns over with the starter, so the ground should be fairly good. We bought a new electronic distributor, so I don't know how it could have been bad.

I'm going back to what I know how to work on. A distributor with a set of points and a new coil, both ACCEL products listed below are on their way to my house.

Accel Distributor Single Point

Accel Super Coil

Hey Dave, Get that distributor yet?

Yep, it came in about a week ago, Accel Distributor with an Accel Super Coil. I waited until my son and his family came over last night before working on it today.

We had breakfast this morning and then went out to the garage and took out the old parts. We had a little trouble dropping the new distributor in while aligning the oil pump shaft, but after about a half hour had the distributor in. We had to change all the plug wires and get them in the proper order. We mounted the coil to the firewall, ran all the wires and tried to start the car. The battery was too low, so we put the charger on it and took a ride in the Mule around the farm. We came back in a half hour and tried the car again. It didn't start. I turned the distributor a little and we tried it again and it fired up and ran. That was a moment I had waited on for a while. I moved the distributor slightly and it smoothed out. We shut the car off and finished hooking up the wires permanently. Then started it a few more times. We're waiting till tomorrow to take the car for a ride as it was raining today and we didn't want to take it out of the garage.

Brent and I were both relieved when the car started and ran. It made our day!

It's VERY cool to hear that! I think I'm waiting for it to warm up before I start in on the Jeep again.

Cool Dave!

Your next Harold! Instead of spring fever I am sure your starting to have willy fever.

My willy is sick all right.

We can get Trallyus to dress up in a nurses outfit and power stroke it.

Cool!!! My Jeep is getting a diesel implant!

I don't want to steal Harold's thread so you guys can see the pictures of the 56 at the link to my family blog in my signature or the link to the Groupee Page.

No. Just me and Gort joking if you can read between a few of the lines.

Very nice Dave!

opps, yeah, I got it and went back and changed my post before I saw your reply. Sorry, I was a little slow on that one.

just bought a 48 cj2a. need to get the inner intake manifold nuts off of the studs, but cant seem to get any tools into the tight spot. Any suggestions?

All that I used was just sockets and wrenches. They all work with the right combinations. Some of them had really short turns before having to get another bite with the wrench. Be sure to use some PBlaster. That stuff works wonders.

Welcome to the board.

Also, it's much easier to do this with the engine out of the Jeep. Makes a big difference.