Date:         Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:19:47 -0800
Reply-To:     mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: still not starting..
Comments: To: Anthony Hecht <lists@SLAPNOSE.COM>
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It sounds like the spark plug wires may be connected out of order. You
do know that they are not in numerical order on the cap? Many people get
the ones on the right side reversed.

Mark

Anthony Hecht wrote:
>
> It's been a long couple of days..
>
> So, I have oil pressure, I have a new coil. The wires are sparking. The
> engine isn't starting.
>
> I've taken the plugs out, disconnected hoses from the intake air distributor
> to let it dry out, disabled the cold start valve, everything I could think
> of, it just won't fire.
>
> Before the CSV was disconnected, it was sort of sputtering, but more like
> backfiring. To the point that it blew one of the intake pipe boots off the
> pipe. White smoke from the exhaust, and from the intake distributor when it
> backfires, but nothing more.
>
> If any of you very knowledgeable people can suggest some more things to try,
> I'm all ears (eyes). I'm starting to run out of ideas.
>