Thanks, Scott. As I mentioned to the poster just before you, the gas should be fresh at less than 3 weeks old. The filer is locked and does not appered to have been tampered with. That squirted out smelled fine per the guy workking on the Doka. Exhaust is still off the truck so that should not be a concern or is it? Ox sensor is not be connected at this time. I am suspicious about the firing order and will check it myself when nobody is around to be offended. The truck is at a friend's shop and the mechanic working on it is a bit sensitive about being questioned about the quality of his work. Yeah, yeah, I know that does not sound like a good thing. The guy has worked on many of my oddball projects so I don't want to tick him off. Will try some quick start fluid just for the hell of it but not before checking for flooding.
Cheers, BenT
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans < scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > well, if you think it's not gasoline really in the tank, > the simple test is to pour some fresh gas down the throttle body or into > the > intake manifold....... > if that makes it go VROOM................then you know that with gasoline, > it can run. > > since it's got both fuel spraying , assumig the poster checked that that's > actually happenhing,.....................and for sure has igntion......... > then the next most obvious thing to suspect is that they're out of time > somehow. The fuel isn't timed per se I don't think, though, but the > camshaft sure is. > > also..........flooding. > pull the plugs to see if they are wet-fouled. > Simply being flooded so the plugs can't fire falls under............... > 'has > fuel and ign but won't fire.' > > firing order of course. > need to check that 5 times. > the ABA has a distributor I'm pretty sure , so checking basic timing and > firing order is pretty straightforward. > > I promise you .............. > "it's just a leakage or blackage of electrons or fluids." > > I also remind people 'fluids' includes gases like exhaust , air, and > vaccum. > but it IS just a leakage or blockage, , or more than one, of electrons or > fluids. > scott |
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