Message text written by INTERNET:SDOliner@aol.com
>it's not my car! it has spark at coil and plugs, new plugs, it has fuel,
compression, pirahanna ignition, the carbs are free and not siezed and
diaphrams
are ok, new fuel lines, fresh oil change, new slave and clutch master,
rebuilt
calipers, and the car refuses to start! it cranks, a cylinder fires evry
so
often and then nothing for a while then intermittently fires again and the
battery is dead! i need to finish this car and make it want to go back
to
it's
owner! 5 speed convertible that belongs to it's original owner. he want's
to
drive it! and i just want it to run! post that to the TR list and see
what
comes back! and i have tried starting fluid too!
i'm at wit's end with this thing! it just refuses to run!
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Dave, my first impulse is that the cap is defective. BTDT. Have him check
the timing. If the cap is carbon tracked the timing marks will be
ambiguous and although he has spark at the plugs it may not be there at the
right time.
While he's at it, has he checked the cam timing? The chain may have jumped
a few teeth and the the whole process is goofed up.
Otherwise we can cross post this to the TR7/8 list and get to a larger
audience of wedge owners.
Good luck
Dave Massey
57 TR3
71 TR6
80 TR8
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