74 No start

[runner74]

Hello

I have a 74 Runner that sat for a week and then would not start. I checked the usual. Accelerator pump gas? Yep. Ballast resistor? Check, then while lookin at all the wires for good connection I found a loose connection of what looks to be a condenser/capacitor coming off the ignition coil.

So I loosened the bolt and slid the capacitor prongs firmly under the bolt and re-tightened. (Bolted to intake manifold)

Low and behold she fired up. Just coincidence?

So my question is does a 74 need this capacitor to run? I thought is was just for radio noise suppression?

I am stumped....

 

[Bb70charger500]

Please post a picture of what your talking about you have a condenser in the distributor with your points (yes it's needed) I'm not understanding what part your talking about the condenser for the radio is inside the car behind the dash .
Please post a picture so someone can answer the? Better

Good on you though for finding andfixing it so quickly stuff like that will get a lot of guys scratching there head

 

[idrivemopar]

I have one also on my 73rr, its a capacitor for noise suppression, but if it was loose I'm guessing the positive wire on the coil connection was not making a good contact either and causing your no start problem.

 

[440roadrunner]

The cap (capacitor, condenser) should be on the POSitive side of the coil and is for radio noise supression. As someone mentioned, unless the pigtail wire was shorting, it does not matter if it's present, or not.

 

[steved033]

Did you undo it again and see if there was a no-start? If the car doesn't start, that might be it, and that's a little weird, because that cap isn't needed. maybe the nut on the coil was just loose...

sjd