Well, your wires could be on the wrong spots on your distributor. You could
check compression. You might also want to try spraying a little ether into it
before you turn it over...
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Craig D. Niederst wrote:
> Well, still cannot get the B started. I thought before that It may have been
> something in the distributor (only had spark at #2), but after a little
> cleaning I now have spark at all cylinders. One thing I did notice about the
> distributor is that the lower of the 2 clips that hold the cap on is gone
> (thus why there was a wire tie holding the assembly together put there by
> the DPO). Any way to fix this (without buying a whole new distributor)? I
> have already verified that I get fuel to the carbs. I am currently at a loss
> on why the car will not turn over. It cranks fine, just will not start,
> sputter, etc. I was thinking that the carbs could possibly be dirty and
> blocked from old gas, etc. I did pull the fuel line from the carbs and
> allowed the fuel pump to pump about 1 liter of gas out of the system before
> trying to start the car. The first few squirts were a bit dirty, but it was
> clean after that. But who knows if the DPO tried to start the car and may
> have let some of the dirty gas into the carbs. When I pulled the plugs after
> a little cranking, they all did smell of gas (so it looks like gas is
> getting to the combustion chambers). Any ideas on where to look next? TIA.
>
> Craig
> '71 B (still in the street and covered in snow)
>
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