In a message dated 6/17/2003 5:30:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
105671.471@compuserve.com writes:
> 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!
> <
>
> 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
>
Any chance the wires from the distributor are on the incorrect
plugs?
Percy Ballentine
(out of lurk mode)
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