Cross firing

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>I'm usually pretty good diagnostically figuring things out
>with the peripheral additions to the engine, but have never gone into
>the
>meat of the engine itself.  Any advice?  Valves, or should I try a new
>distributor first?  Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>I'd check it in the dark and look for a cracked coil.

I'd check the inside of the distributor cap very carefully for cracks, or 
much more likely, tracks of where the high voltage has been avoiding the 
rotor and finding its own way from the coil wire to the plug wires. 
John

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