Achtane wrote:I live by the 20 foot visual test. See? Looks spiffy!
That's a cool looking car. Everything should be hatchback or wagon...
Ran some errands today, tried to start the car this afternoon and
...huh. The engine turns and turns.and never starts. I did the spark plug...spark...test and it seems to be getting no electricity. I just replaced the distributor, rotor, and plug wires like a month ago. The plugs are still good.
Bleh...
I had my Silverado did something like this a long time ago and it was dumb...
Fuel filter.
I got into the habit of changing them yearly after that.
Kinda surprised the Corolla has a dist in the traditional sense (don't know much about them though). I would have guessed coil over direct system.
Anyway, is it like an HEI or optical? Maybe pertronix has a cheap system? On the mustang, when I did new wires, I had to go out there ever dang day and push and kinda re-adjust the wires because the would slip off the coil or cap until they finally broke in. Once, the stupid coil wire popped off while driving and I was getting intermittent misses (I'm guessing it would fire when the coil over came the resistance in the Air gap).
Does it have an ignition box (capacitive disharge or something). Could just need a new box like a Mallory or something
. Seem people replace stock ones with easy to find aftermarket because sometimes just the dumbest heat or vibration kills em.
http://www.car-part.com/ let's you search junk yards all over.
Just remembered my old Volkswagen superbeetle would kill coils several times a year...found out it was a short somewhere around the steering column or dash (I guess). My dad and I could never find it. Had it towed to a shop and the tow truck driver left it in first and caught it on fire...and the company paind for a new engine and everything. Then the syncros went bad in the transmission.
Don't know if any of that helps.
Speaking of the Silverado, I need one of those light stickers...dumb secondary sensor won't trip in la driving conditions.
Wheels look good Colin. Better seats are always good. I forgot how annoying seat could be until I got the mustang....they don't lock and no head rest. Hard stop, hard bending greeting to the steering wheel haha.
On the mustang, I got a purple billet servo for the transmission. Been kinda working through the math in my head for rear end gearing. C4 is 2.46 in first/1.46 second/1.00 in third...I think I have a 2.78:1 open diff in there now. Thinking of going to a Detroit trutrac at 3.25:1. Gotta keep the auto because it's my wife's car.
Found a head for it cheap too...don't know where it is though...hasn't been shipped yet (cheaper than a guitar pedal!). No big deal...just collecting parts.