[Mgs] i am so frustrated!!!!

[Charley Robinson]

I take it you mean the engine cranks on the starter but won't start 
running.  Could it be that you inadvertently disconnect a wire to the 
coil or distributor while you were replacing the valve cover, etc?  
Check to see if it has a spark.

CR

On 3/19/2019 8:27 PM, dave via Mgs wrote:
>
> You may remember I posted a picture of a non running 78 B I picked 
> up.  Removed the valve cover, lined up the valves, used a steel rod to 
> ensure #1 was at TDC, backed it off just a bit so it was about 10 
> degrees BTC and found that the rotor pointed to one of the dizzy 
> wires.  Not #1 btw.  The wires were just all wrong; took them all off 
> and put them in correctly.  Car fired right up using starter fluid, 
> but wouldn’t continue to run.
>
> Definitely due to impatience, and not following a logical sequence of 
> trouble shooting, after blowing out the fuel line, swapping out the 
> electric fuel pump, I finally figured out that the fuel line between 
> the gas tank and the fuel pump was clogged.  (Didn’t blow that one 
> out!!!)  and yes I’m planning on replacing ALL rubber fuel lines.
>
> Got it really purring on the new fuel pump, swapped the old one back 
> in and the car ran fine.
>
> got all the wiring reredone after I butchered it reremoving and 
> rereplacing fuel pumps, put back the various hoses and things I had 
> removed in the engine compartment after removing the valve cover.
>
> Nada.
>
> Nothing.
>
> Even with starter fluid.
>
> Time to do something else.  I’ll revisit this another day and in the 
> meantime hook it back up to the battery charger.
>
>
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