How far you can throw it?

 

I might have to check for that again, I have the vacuum hose diagram under the hood. I don't remember seeing the spark plug info near it though...

 

I already used one of the covers as a makeshift funnel shortly after I first bought the truck and needed to add some tranny fluid.

 

Either a poor POS or Negative connection, or a diode(s) in the Alternator are pooching.

At warm Idle, take a voltage reading from the Alternator Positive post to ground.

Do you know what your warm idle RPM is?

Should be 650-675 RPM for a 302 w/ A/T.

A midge more for a M/T.

 

Mine is on the air cleaner housing cover.

 

Maybe. Not sure about the rpm. No tach and I don't know how else to figure it out. About to go out to my truck. I can let it warm up and check the voltage.

 

My stock gap is .042-.046 , for my 87' 302. I did the upgrade & originally settled at .060. Then I went to a modified side gap copper core, gapped to .054. Keep in mind, my upgrade included a 60K volt, low Ohm coil.

 

I followed the link posted (I think you posted it) when I first started this thread and used the part number for the MSD ignition coil the guy used, which was a 44,000 volt coil.

 

That's fine. I just wanted a bit more "bang"!

 

wasn't sure how much "bang" my engine could handle after almost 260k miles. Test drove, feels way better. I wasn't sure about where you said on the alternator to hook the multimeter, I just saw to connectors/plugs.

So I put one on the pos terminal and one on a ground. It read 14 volts at a warm idle. Then just for SnG's I turned my headlights on and checked again.

It read 12.8, and steadily dropped from there to around 12.6-12.5 before I turned my lights off. After which it quickly rose back to 14.