Buckeye440
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Hey all, took my '68 Satellite with swapped 440/6 out for a little spin last week. Shortly after leaving the driveway, it felt like it started to miss a little. I pulled into a parking lot, turned it off, waited a few minutes, and it restarted fine. Idles in the parking lot, in gear, for 20-25 minutes, occasionally coasting a few feet. Started to drive back home, started going up hill and the sputter came back. So I gave it some gas and the engine suddenly woke up and roared, sounded great. Got off the gas as I approached a stop light and started turning left. As I gave it gas out of the turn it didn't respond at all, zero acceleration. Within a few feet it shut off, in all honesty it felt like it ran out of gas but I had just filled the tank the day before. Luckily I had a few people push it to the house from the end of the street, again, incredibly lucky. No matter what we could not get it to start. It turns over like normal, the air cleaner came off and the center crab had gas coming out of the jets. A few days later went to check spark and it started on one crank. Baffled. Checked spark with a timing light and all 8 wires near the plugs showed RPM readings. ANY ideas why it randomly wanted to stall and not start??