car still wont start ... whats wrong?!

[jlagnese at massed.net (John S. Lagnese)]

If its backfiring the wires are on wrong. Have you tried checking the timing
mark? The mark is 6' BTDC. It should tell you where #1 should be.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos Alves" <alves@email.unc.edu>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Cc: <alves@email.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:29 AM
Subject: car still wont start ... whats wrong?!


> Ok all,
>
> I spent a good 3 hours yesterday at night trying to fix this damn
> problem, and im gonna take another shot at it at around 1 in the
> daylight. Here is what happened.
>
> Just a simple cap and rotor change, the timing belt WAS left on to the
> car. Changed the old rotor wit hthe new Bosch one, put the cap on, and
> put the plugs on and tried to start the car, but it didn't fire. I then
> tried removing the new rotor but the damn thing was stuck to the shaft,
> and when I tried removing it with force, it snapped in two, so I put
> the old rotor back on.  The rotor is currently pointing DOWN. Now, I
> put the cap back on, and reconnected the plugs in 1 3 42 CCW firing
> order, assuming that the first plug was in the 2 o clock position, and
> the car didnt fire. I moved around the number one plug 4 times, in
> every other possible position, and every single time, the car would not
> start, it just kept on cranking. When I would get back to the engien
> bay, it smelled like gas. I disconnected the center ignition coil on
> the distributor cap and ran a spark test, and there was a spark coming
> from the coil. I Then put it back on, tried starting it, only to no
> avail. However, oddly enough, when the plugs were in a certain
> position, the car would backfire while trying to start... what does
> that mean?!
>
> I have no idea what to do from here. My car was correctly timed (to my
> knowleadge, it wa running smoothly) so I should not need to worry about
> aligning the camshaft with TDC, right? Perhaps I accidentally unplugged
> a crucial connection while trying to remove and swap the cap and rotor?
> I have no idea. Any help would be greatly appreciated ... I am starting
> to get extremley frustrated. REplacing the cap and rotor shouldn't be a
> 3 hour job.
>
>
>
> Faster than a speeding pinto......
> Coches
>
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