car still wont start ... whats wrong?!

[asbfooh at yahoo.com (Aaron in San Jose)]

the backfire just means the plug fired when the
exhaust valve was open , so you have some plugs wires
in a very wrong order , start all over and get your
plug wires right , you do have a book correct ? -Aaron




--- "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese@massed.net> wrote:
> 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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