Me thinks i got it! While fooling around with the coil, I pulled the condenser to clean breaker plate and lo and behold it turns out that it was a 12volt! condenser in there. Took it out and replaced with spare 24volt from another engine awaiting rebuild. I was also right on ignition switch rebuild,...

Tnx fer all the great info. Went ahead and got all the timing situated and... nothing! It's definetly spark. Pulled #1 and no spark when cranked. Went ahead and sprayed Deoxit on pionts and contacts and am letting it air out. I was getting voltage on Breaker plate even with pionts open so assuming t...

Great! Glad to here another one is running out there.
Have fun.

I have been gleaning much usefull info from the various posts here, they are great! My problem like so many others is she refuses to start. I have pretty much stock 51-M37, Turns over no problem and acts like it just wants to catch but won't. Here is where I get a little confused. At TDC shoul'd the...

Tnx Lifer. I thought thats what it might be.
Also tnx for the heads up on the rebuild options. I'll look into both.

First Hello. New Here. I have a 51 M37 and recently got it running after sitting for a year or so. It required rebuilding the distributer and the ignition switch wich appeared to be only main problems with getting it going. Abt 3 weeks ago while timing the engine the oil line feeding the filter burs...