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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:46:55 GMT
From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dmannopsam13.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: failure to start


On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:23:24 +0000, Grunff wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > >> After I replaced the distributor cap and rotor > > Is that all you did? Anything else? Not before the failure to start. I also replaced the air filter and fuel filter after the cap and rotor. However, I tried starting it after replacing the cap and rotor and that's the first it wouldn't start. The fuel filter is in the right direction (in fact, the size different on the bolts ensures that it can't go backwards), and fuel drops out of the fuel lines at the intake. >> the engine no longer >> starts. I thought maybe it was just out of gas, since the guage read >> "empty" but after putting almost a half a tank in, it still won't >> start. When I turn the key the engine tries to turn over. However, I >> don't hear any explosion from the power stroke. I took each plug out >> and held it on the intake, and each plug has spark. I also >> disconnected each fuel line from the intake and each line has fuel. >> >> What did I do? > > Put the ignition leads on the cap the wrong way round? Yeah, I've re-checked the order probably a dozen times by now. It's nice having the cylinder numbers and firing order printed right on the intake there. The rotor turns counter-clockwise, right? The cables all sit nicely, not too tight/short or loose/long, as if they're in the right spot. Say, Grunff, since you're so well versed in Saabs, would you happen to know if, from top to bottom, the go to plugs 1234 in that order on this engine? I don't think I put them back on wrong, but maybe 12 and 34 are reversed at the plugs. I'll go check now. >> I obviously messed something up, but I can't figure >> out what. What can I check next? > > The order of the ignition leads. Well, with an I-4 there's precisely 24 possible orderings. I could just start trying them one at a time. Heh. Not fun, but at least doable. >> Is it possible/probable for the >> plugs to not have spark in the cylinder but have spark when held next >> to the intake? > > No. Ok. That's good. -D PS. thanks for responding so quickly! (sometimes the time-zone difference is an advantage :-)) -- One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Redmond, where the Shadows lie. www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dmannopsam13.dyndns.org

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