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New parts that are in fact faulty are probably the #1 hardest thing to diagnosis. Who would suspect that the very part you put on to fix the problem is now the source of it.

Congratulations on solving your problem. Must be satisfying for you.

Not nearly as much as i thought it would be, but i am some what pleased that the car is running again and pretty good at that.

i assumed when you changed the dizzy from your good car, the cap, rotor, and wires came with it. i ...

You would think i would be a little more excited than i am to have finally solved the problem, but i never really had that "Ah Ha!" moment.

I got some new (champion) plugs, a new rotor button and stole the dizzy cap off of the good running car and put them on. Key element : I thought the dizzy cap ...

Got the compressor tester.

#1 cyl: 90psi

#2, #3, and #4 cyl: 120psi

The car does have 240,000 miles on it.


* Also checked the Tach, and it does read around 200rpm when turning the engine over. I am going to swap the entire ignition system from my good running car over to this car; distributor ...

So if you pour a teaspoon of gas down your primary barrel right now and try starting the car what happens? Same with starting fluid?

You have spark currently?

When you crank the engine does your tach go up? Like to the 200-300 range, or does it stay at zero?


Pouring gas has the same effect as ...

did you confirm the piston is at TDC of the compression stroke and not the exhaust stroke? i do this by plugging the spark plug hole with my thumb while cranking the engine with a ratchet on the crank pulley bolt. when you feel pressure build up behind your thumb, you are approaching TDC of the ...

I'm back fellas. Finally got around to fooling with the car this afternoon. Took off the timing cover and found nothing to be drastically out of order, however i did end up adjusting the cam gear 1 tooth. I must have reset my timing 3 or 4 times just to make sure i had everything absolutely perfect ...

Still in NC at the moment, but I will check on that primary butterfly and see whats going on.

Whoa, WAY too much fuel.
A teaspoon or 2 was suggested, a 1/4 cup is overkill and will just add to your frustrations cause now its flooded, too.

While the weber may be a great choice, I personally ...

Ok, so today with the good distributor and plug wires still in place i poured about a quarter, maybe half, a cup of raw fuel down the throat of the carb as a last ditch effort and tried to start it. That engine is D-E-A-D dead, not even a burp. Unfortunately i will be heading out of town for the ...

could the dizzy be 360* off? when you reinstalled the dizzy, did you make sure the first cylinder was at TDC of it's compression stroke, and not the exhaust stroke? easy way to check this is to pull the first spark plug and hold your thumb over the hole while you crank the engine clockwise with a ...

there is a sight glass in the front of the carb that shows the float level,of the fuel in the carb, it should be in the center of the sight glass. pull the fuel line off at the carb, put the line in a bottle,crank the engine to check the the fuel pump is pumping fuel. pull all the plugs and see if ...

have you tried dropping a few teaspoons of gas down the carb
if it fires right up and dies you know its a gas problem
but before trying this shine a light down the throat of the carb and open the throttle so you can look to the bottom to see if there is a large puddle of gas down there
flooded ...

Where are these ignition relays located? The car is in fact getting good spark, at least on the #2 cylinder, pulled the plug, stuck it on the valve cover, and cranked the engine; good yellowish/white spark. The timing belt is new and not even a year old. Is it possible for it to have slipped a few ...

Hello all, its been awhile since my last post, but i am back and despite my love of these little cars, good god almighty can they p*ss me off. My original issue was with my 1985 (engine: 3A) 4wd SR5 5spd wagon having a horrible hesitation when accelerating hard. That problem is still unchanged, but ...

Hubby said he thinks our son either forgot to put the cap on or just did not tighten it and we have to drive over lots of rough back roads daily.
The airfilter was clean a few days ago so i guess when the oil started flying out it got sucked up in the airfilter too. I guess we will get a new one.
He ...