Swapped distributors on the 81 Elky and the 81 Malibu.
Did the "paper in the spark plug" trick and bumped the engine and ran the wires according to firing order on the elky and everything turned out fine. Car runs (hooray)
Did the same for the Malibu but it won't start. Just farts out the exhaust. Check these pics of the spark plugs from the Malibu. What causes this? Both cars were running fine before the distributor swaps so parts are fine.
Did the "paper in the spark plug" trick and bumped the engine and ran the wires according to firing order on the elky and everything turned out fine. Car runs (hooray)
Did the same for the Malibu but it won't start. Just farts out the exhaust. Check these pics of the spark plugs from the Malibu. What causes this? Both cars were running fine before the distributor swaps so parts are fine.