[AgShelby]

Yesterday I was approaching a red light at low speed and downshifted to 1st. The car backfired and then wouldn't start. It would fire intermittently - so I suspected that it was an ignition problem. I pulled off the distributor cap momentarily, and saw that the rotor was turning.

Today I began troubleshooting and checked out the entire ignition system. It all checked good and I was getting good spark from the ignition module, but nothing to the plugs. I pulled the cap again and noticed that the distributor was turning intermittently. I then pulled the distributor and found that about half the teeth were missing from the gear. I suspect that the failure was with an incompatibility between the cam and distributor, or the gear drive timing system failed.

Anyway, I need to go into the engine and diagnose, clean out the metal and repair. This is beyond the detail that I want to get into - so need a good machine shop in the area.

Any suggestions?