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|    Scott Dorsey to Michael Trew    |
|    Re: Car won't start...    |
|    31 Dec 21 14:30:05    |
      From: kludge@panix.com              On 12/30/2021 9:55 PM, Michael Trew wrote:       > Drats... I really thought that the coil went, but it still has spark to       > the distributor cap. I dumped a bit of fuel down the throttle. No       > difference. Cranks just fine, but it won't even pop as if it were       > trying to catch; not even on one cylinder.              If it's not spark and it's not fuel, it's air or timing. First step is to       get out the timing light.              > I guess I'll try again in the morning. Any ideas? How ironic that I       > get stumped like this, after posting a couple of times today how old       > cars are so much easier to work on... LOL. Thanks in advance.              If you had a newer car, you could go into the menus and look at a plot of the       crankshaft position sensor and the timing diagram without even having to get       your hands dirty.       --scott       --       "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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