Hello,

I have a 1982 crossfire that I am working on. I already got alot of help from this board a month ago when I needed the firing order and cylinder order. Thanks!!

Now, after replacing the plugs, wires, cap, and rotor, I cannot get the car to start. I had ALOT of trouble with the distributor cap. It would not go on right and I had to fight with it for an hour. anyway, I had just changed the fuel filter too, and drank a quart of gas doing so, so I know I am at least getting gasoline that far, and as for spark, they are all correct plugs, correctly gapped, and are brand new, so all that is really left I guess is timing. I was told this is all located under the distributor, and I dont know anything about it. Could this be the problem? Maybe could I have knocked something loose?

Does anyone know how I can check it, or how I should go about repairing it??

Thanks!!

Thomas

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It's almost impossible for the timing to just jump itself off into the ozone. I wouldn't worry too much about that possibility.

The cap should just drop right on without any real effort. If you turn all 4 of the little retaining clips around to where they point outwards, it should set down on there easily. I'd bet that it's still tilted or otherwise not on there right, and the rotor has hit it as it spins.

Take off the dist cap and look at the rotor. See if it still has its little contact on it, or if it got knocked off in the course of working on it. Then find out why the cap is being a hassle and take care of that before you put it back on. Make sure of course that all the wires are hooked back up, and that the ones from the module to the coil terminals in the cap aren't broken where they come out of the dist housing.

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Thanks alot for the reply. I got in there today and clean it all out again, and it at least started sputtering again,..whew.

OK, now that all of that is right,... it is trying to start, but just wont do it. It is getting a really rich mixture, and every now and then backfires out of the carb/injector. and a few times it has began to crank and then just couldnt. The car has been sitting for a month or more, so maybe should I just give it some time? or could it be a battery thing? I have a charger hooked to the battery as I tried to start it just in case though, and still no go.

It sounds like it wants to, but just cant seem to do it. What do you guys think should be my next objective??

Thanks in advance,

Thomas