Check for spark at the plugs then check for correct timing. After a lot of
cranking the plugs should have quite a strong fuel smell, if not be soaking
wet and flooded. No smell = no fuel to the cylinders.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Drake" <adrake@mail.ru>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Hard starting
> Hello listers!
>
> Spring has sprung and my wife is bugging me about getting our MGB over the
the
> neighborhood bodyshop to get cleaned up. I had the car started and running
a
> couple of weeks ago after a long winter nap, and drove it nearly an hour
before
> I put it back away. I go to start it this weekend, and it cranks and
cranks and
> cranks...no go, even with a half a tank of gas, a fully topped off battery
> (left on charger over night) a little starting fluid and everything. Help!
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