[urq] More of the car that wouldn't start

[Thatcher Hubbard]

I do, I don't think the car would even start if that weren't the case,
but I did verify it.  Basically, I never detached the leads from the
cap until I re-installed them into the car.

I have not tried swapping my idle and WOT switches.  The length of the
wires makes that seem unlikely.  I did try disconnecting both of them
though, and it made absolutely no difference.


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 23:05:04 -0000, Jim Haseltine
<jim_haseltine at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Simple question - you have got the plug leads in the correct sequence
> haven't you?
> 
> Failing that - the idle and wot switches mixed up?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Haseltine
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thatcher Hubbard" <thatcher.hubbard at gmail.com>
> To: <urq at audifans.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:15 PM
> Subject: [urq] More of the car that wouldn't start
> 
> > It will start now, as it would yesterday.  I checked the timing (that
> > is, the position of the cam versus the crank) and I was indeed off a
> > tooth, although when I restarted the car it ran even more roughly than
> > before.
> >
> > We've tried adjusting the distributor, the range in which it will
> > actually fire the coil is small, and it doesn't seem to matter where
> > we position it, the car will die if I don't use the throttle to keep
> > it at about 1k rpm.
> >
> > I also checked all of my vacuum routing and such (thanks for the ETKA
> > slides and the routing diagram Louis-Alain).  There were two things
> > that I had not connected, the first being the small hose that goes to
> > the outside/underside of the igloo towards the front, and the ECU.
> >
> > The ECU hose deserves its own discussion.  The digrams I have clearly
> > indicate that it go on the left-rear port (from the front of the car
> > looking back) of that group of four small ports that come off the back
> > of the IM.  The left rear port is slightly larger than the other three
> > though, which would indicate to me that a larger hose needs to be
> > attached to it.  My ECU hose is so brittle that I had to cut it back
> > and put one fo those inline hose splices in it.  I was wondering if
> > anyone else had noticed this.
> >
> > So, the car will start after a crank or two (right away pretty much)
> > but will not idle at all, will run pretty roughly at 1k rpm and though
> > the engine will rev when I give it more gas, it's still pretty rough
> > (not like it used to be).  It seems like a timing issue, but I'm
> > running out of places to be wrong on that.  I'm pretty sure the coil
> > wouldn't even fire if I had the distributor in wrong (wrong relation
> > to cam) and like I said above, it doesn't seem to matter where we
> > position the distributor body versus the dizzy itself, the car still
> > doesn't run well.
> >
> > Thanks again to everyone who's had suggestions for me, I really appreciate
> > it.
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