Car won't start
 

Had my car to Sparta friday night.Did 2 runs after the second run drove back parked the car and that was it.It won't start just turns over.Have changed coil tried another dist.Still nothing just turns over.Also shows fuel pressure on my gauge.Any ideas guys????

Are you sure the other distributor is good? My guess would be ignition module, this can be easily checked by just plugging in the dist/module assy, running a ground wire to it, leave the coil hooked up, pull the wire at the cap end and attach a spark tester to it, when spinning the dist. by hand you should have spark from the coil wire.

First thing I did was put a new module on the dist.

Do you have spark? What exactly does the car do? Does it sputter at all, or just spins?

Just turns over.Don't think there's any spark at all.

You're gonna have to check, how much fuel pressure do you have?

Can here the pump come on and the gauge is showing about 31 psi.

You'll need to check for spark, can't really figure it out without all the info, is it back home now, or still at the track?

Sitting in the garage.It got escorted home to the tune on $90...lol

That sux, at least it's home, we'll have to get into it more a little later, gotta head out right now, what you need to do it check for spark, you can use a spark plug for this, attach the plug to a wire and ground the plug, you should see a pretty strong spark, if spark is present, pull all the plugs and check the condition, what I think happened is, the module went, then you tried to start it a zillion times and flodded the plugs to the point that they're FUBAR'D, now you likely have spark since you changed the module but the plugs are fudged causing it to seem like nothing has been fixed even though it may be........I would also change the oil if the plugs are soaked w/fuel, if the oil is full of fuel it may cause the same condition, so look into it, I'll be back in a few hours. :teeth:
Btw, what'd she run?????

13.67@101.52.Just starting to get the thing dialed in.

Any progress?

Checked the coils I have both gave .07 ohms on the primary side and they gave 2.95 for one and 8.21 for the other on the secondary side of things.Are they both no good?The one I had in the other day was the one that had .07 and 2.95.But neither will start the car.

Are you measuring across the terminals or to the tower?

Across the terminals plus and minus for the .07 reading.And the other is minus to the tower right?

Have you pulled the plugs or checked for spark yet?

All the plugs look great and zero on the spark.

The plugs had no fuel on them?

Nope.But my gauge shows lots of pressure.

You say you used another distributor, are you sure it was working? The ignition module controls fuel injector pulse and sends the feed to the coil. If you have no fuel on the plugs and no spark, I would then guess that you have no injector pulse because if you did, the plugs should be wet. What I would do is, either install the ignition module you know is good on the other distributor and check for spark, or dissassemble your distributor and look for broken parts inside. what you should do first is get yourself a spark tester and a test light so you can check for the proper feeds.

The other dist was working when it came out of the car it was in.Guess I'll do somemore messing around with it.Thanks

Well got it figured out.It was in the steering column.Red wire had come out of the ignition switch connector.Re crimped it put it back in and it fired up.Thanks for all your help Ponyryd........... :thumb1:

Good to hear, glad to help. :teeth:

Looks like you have no spark from what you are saying. Check the distributor and sparkplugs, and wires. I always check the most common problems.

Been there done that check posts cured.