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Re: 74 no start condition Posted by Dan [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: 74 no start condition, Gery, Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:32:22 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Though I doubt this is your problem, I threw a new engine in a '78 EMS I had and fired the car up, back it out of the yard a parked it. I can back a few days later and fired the car up. i was doing some usual checks to make sure nothing had started leaking, etc. when the engine started to run rough. I gave the car some throttle and it smoothed back out...then started to die again, etc. Eventually, the car died and I could not get it to start again. I checked everything. I spent two or three days going over everything I could think of. It seemed to be a timing issue but that didnt' make sense as the car ran and I hadn't touched anything to do with the timing. Eventually I decided that though I was getting spark at all the plugs I would change the distributor. I didn't really have a reasonable excuse for doing it, 'cept it was just about the only thing I hadn't done. The car fired right up.
So what had happened? The stupid little cotter pin that holds the drive gear to the distributor had sheared. How? I don't know. But the oil pump was still doing its thing smoothly and the distributor moved fine. (I'm thinking someone had changed the idler shaft to an earlier version at some point and had swapped that drive gear as well...but had installed the same old pin with a little too much gusto?) The timing looked on but on turning over the engine the rotor would slip and everything would be off.
Give it a look. Probably just a bad relay, though.
dan
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