Assistance required!

[Jim Green]

--- Brandon Adams <quattrorunner at lvcm.com> wrote:
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> OK listers, I need help or I will get violent.
> First I'll let you know how things have gone the
> past couple days. Sunday, I finished the MC
> conversion on my 90q. Well I thought I did. I went
> to start the car and it has a miss. Then my spotter,
> said that there was oil on the ground. The oil feed
> line to the turbo had a stripped bolt I mean the
> bolt stripped the housing. My fault. Monday, I got
> the hili coil and repaired it. Today, I decided to
> take the spark plugs out to see if there was too
> much paint from the valve job keeping the plugs from
> getting a ground. So I used a mini vac to keep stuff
> out of the engine as I scraped paint and what not.
> Well the end of the vac tip fell in! It is about
> 1/4"X3" long. 2 Hours later, I got good at fishing
> and waisting time (Idon't have a lot of it). I got
> it out and proceded. After that it still has a miss
> but almost wants to run, It stalls though. Sounds as
> though it's on 3 cyls. not sure. But after the last
> try, I have no power at all. I turn the ignition and
> nothing no lights nothing. I came right in after
> washing up and sat down at the computer. The
> ignition parts are not new. Almost new, 2 years old.
> but the car ran great before the swap. The plugs are
> new though. If any one can point me in "a" direction
> as I'm tapped out at the moment, it would be swell.
> Thanks, Brandon
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Are you sure the timing is set right?  Also, I used to
run my battery down all the time when doing engine
swaps, I always kept a charger on it just in case I
needed a lot of cranking time.
HTH

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Jim Green
'89 90tq EFI
http://www.geocities.com/jeg1976/car_home.html

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