Date:         Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:07:43 -0400
Reply-To:     Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Subject:      Re: first try = first run
Comments: To: Ry Blaisdell <rylincoln@GMAIL.COM>

When something work and you move/touch something and it's stop working, go
back in time and put it the way it was before. Double check what you did
that could have created the problem.

Timing may be way off and it was somewhat ok with the plug wire not at the
right position. Now you need to make sure TDC is right and concord with the
rotor/distributor cap.

What is wrong now is timing. Maybe the distributor gear is not align?

The basic of TDC
http://www.benplace.com/tdc.htm

Ben





On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:31:47 -0500, Ry <rylincoln@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>ok so I made a mistake.  i had the spark plugs hooked up on the distributor
>cap so that it was firing 1-2-3-4 instead of 1-4-3-2  even though I KNEW
>what it was supposed to be, just a late evening working all day shoulda
>taken a break mistake.
>
>Thing is it started right up that way though was rough and a bit loud(now i
>know why!).
>Now that I got it all hooked up proper like, it doesn't want to start, it
>has sputtered a few times. :(  did i do something awful?
>
>I'm letting it rest right now and charging the batter(i didn't try so long
>that i let the battery go dead, just knew it hadn't been charged in more
>than a month)
>
>sigh... any hep?
>-Ry
>http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln
>
>
>On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> I hope you did manage to put oil in the tranny before running the engine
>> much. You can ruin the dry tranny without driving the van, since the engine
>> will always turn the tranny mainshaft.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> Ry wrote:
>>
>>> Update:
>>> A few loose bolts on engine tin, timing not dialed in yet, coolant system
>>> needs to be bled some more(not that hard imho) and DOH i forgot to put
>>> trans
>>> oil in BEFORE i bolted it all up and made it more difficult to do.
>>>
>>> BUT first try and it started right up :)
>>>
>>>
>>>