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- Thread starter Tobers
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any suggestions?
mbalbritton
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- Lakeland, FL
1: Is there fuel in the tank?
2: With engine off, Look down the carb, hit the throttle and see if any fuel skirts into carb.
3: Pull a spark plug, Make sure it's dry, if it's wet, you may be flooded. With the Plug dry, and plug wire attached. Hold it near the block or other grounded metal, and turn engine over. are you getting spark?
4: if you have some spark, you may very well be flooded. Get in hold the throttle Wide ass open, and crank it until it fires up. I flooded my engine one time to the point that it took a good solid minute of cranking to clear out.
5: If plugs are dry, but no spark, follow all wires and check all connects between Plugs, Dist Cap, Coil, Distributor to coil, Distributor to Ignition Module, EVERY WIRE.
If all still fails, you may have a bad Ignition Module. Only way to know for sure is to swap it out. The old Motorcraft Duraspark Modules go out pretty regularly. I'd suggest a Ford TFI coil and GM 4 pin Ignition Module set-up.
2: With engine off, Look down the carb, hit the throttle and see if any fuel skirts into carb.
3: Pull a spark plug, Make sure it's dry, if it's wet, you may be flooded. With the Plug dry, and plug wire attached. Hold it near the block or other grounded metal, and turn engine over. are you getting spark?
4: if you have some spark, you may very well be flooded. Get in hold the throttle Wide ass open, and crank it until it fires up. I flooded my engine one time to the point that it took a good solid minute of cranking to clear out.
5: If plugs are dry, but no spark, follow all wires and check all connects between Plugs, Dist Cap, Coil, Distributor to coil, Distributor to Ignition Module, EVERY WIRE.
If all still fails, you may have a bad Ignition Module. Only way to know for sure is to swap it out. The old Motorcraft Duraspark Modules go out pretty regularly. I'd suggest a Ford TFI coil and GM 4 pin Ignition Module set-up.
Ridgerunner
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- Mar 21, 2005
- Location
- Fuquay Varina, NC
What engine?
Was it running before or did you get it this way?
Does your distributor rotor turn when you crank the engine? if not you could have a broken timing chain or dist gear. if the cam does not turn you will also not pump fuel sisnce your fuel pum runs off of the camshaft
Do you have Points or electronic ingintion. if points you could have a bad capacitor. if electronic you could hav a bad module especialy of it is that POS motorcraft Crap
Do you have 12v to the + side of your Coil with the key on?
If you need help getting it started I am not far from durham
Give me a call 919 567-2106 or 919 201 0915 cell
Was it running before or did you get it this way?
Does your distributor rotor turn when you crank the engine? if not you could have a broken timing chain or dist gear. if the cam does not turn you will also not pump fuel sisnce your fuel pum runs off of the camshaft
Do you have Points or electronic ingintion. if points you could have a bad capacitor. if electronic you could hav a bad module especialy of it is that POS motorcraft Crap
Do you have 12v to the + side of your Coil with the key on?
If you need help getting it started I am not far from durham
Give me a call 919 567-2106 or 919 201 0915 cell
My buddy had the same problem with his. He bought his from a guy he knew. When he did a tune up on it, it would not start. When my dad came from NY to visit me he fixed the problem. He said the timing had jumped off by one so he took the plug wires and jumped them by one. After he did that, it just started right up like nothing. If you have any questions please call me at (910) 584-1000 ask for Brett.