>Stripped timing gear? I'm beginning to think that something like that
>may have happened, although at no point was there any actual ignition.
>I would think that you wouldn't strip the timing gear unless the
>engine actually started up, but badly wrong.
>
>There are only 8 possible candidates for the distributor position of
>cylinder 1. I tried each of them, always insuring that the clockwise
>order of the wires is 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2. In none of the 8 positions does
>it start.
>
>Maybe somehow the spark isn't getting through? I hooked up a timing
>light to a spark plug wire. It flashes while cranking. Also, I
>verified the position of the distributor to see if maybe it
>accidentally got loose and rotated. No, it still lines up with a mark
>I made earlier.
>
>But tell me, HOW would a timing gear get stripped? How could you tell
>if this happened? If the timing light flashes, doesn't this mean that
>the timing gear is OK?
>
>Actually, the *only* thing that changed since it was running great was
>this cap and rotor. The new wires worked just great. I'm running low
>on ideas at the moment......
>
> Robert
I may be wrong, but if you stripped the timing gear, you would probably
have more problems than just not starting - It happened in my '75 360
pickup. Bent quite a few valves. If the timing gear is stripped, you won't
have any rotation of the rotor, because the distributer shaft won't be turning.
Have you thought about putting the old cap and rotor back on? Perhaps you
got one of the "rare" bad-out-of-the-box rotors or cap? I have seen it
happen - if something is "off", you will never get any spark...
If the timing light is flashing, you SHOULD have spark, perhaps not enough.
Take the plug wire off the cap, put a phillips screwdriver in the plug cap,
and put the screwdriver shaft close to ground, and have someone crank'er
over. You should have a nice, blue spark. If it's yellow, it's not hot
enough, and your coil may be weak.
Have you found TDC yet?
Just my $.02 worth...
Roger
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Roger, Karen, and Heather Phillips
1982 32' Coachmen President
Oxford, Indiana
http://www.crbest.com/coachman
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