I believe its harder to retrain the slaves not to package them.

 

Let's not mislead this guy into thinking his might be an end gasket issue. What's happening to him isn't because of crankcase venting, or too much of it if he had a leaky end.

 

Well guys I changed the coil today but it did the exact same thing again it turns on fine and stays on but once I start driving it'll be good and then shut off and not turn on!!

 

Quick, go check for spark!!! Rule it out, or rule it in.

 

I thought if was a spark problem it was the coil acting up and I just bought a new one?

 

Also could be the ignition module, #3 in post 36

 

Sorry I the op if you thought I was implying the gaskets were to blame. I was simply talking about how they were not being used anymore.

The module usually just goes out, in my experience at least. Do you have a spare HEI somewhere you can rob parts from? I know it sucks going to the parts store and spending money you dont have on parts that dont fix the problem. I've been there too many times. It worse most parts stores dont return electrical items. Thats kind of why I never throw things away, I have a little junk yard to work from in cases like yours.

The only time I had an issue like this was a buddies Camaro, the fuel line was run so close to the block that it was heating the fuel and vapor locking in the line. Its free to check.

 

I've had a similar issue with an intermittent short on a car. I never found it until it shorted hard enough to take out the fuseable link and burn the wire in half. It was on the fuseable link wire from the starter, and my car would just quit running, then eventually restart. One day it just stopped totally, and I got the 12v. test light out and started following things from the starter to each point I could test. It showed up quickly once it totally failed, but gave me fits until then.
Check to see if any wires are near any hot exhaust.

 

Ok so I finally had some time to work on the car again and I bought a new ignition control module and installed it but now my car won't even start?!?!? So then I put the old one back on and it started right up?!? Any ideas??

 

Compatibility issue? Maybe someone swapped distributors once upon a time.
See if your distributor has a tag around the shaft with a part number on it.