over until you feel compression coming up through the hole , at that point
you should have top dead center coming up to the timimg mark, ( make sure
the mark is sitting in ) degrees) .Re and re your dist shaft and housing
making sure the rotor is pointing at number one high tension wire.then reset
your ign timing with a timing light.
If you think the timing chain/gears are worn or skip do a compression test
on all eight cyls. should be within twenty percent of each other.Also
another way to check the timing gears< Move the crank balancer back and
forth while watching the rotor the balancer should move any more the four
degree one way or the other before it moves the rotor.
If you wannt to test the voltage to plugs: buy a ST125 DELCO NUMBER(about
$10.00) at your local auto shop and that will test the secondary side of the
ign system,needs 30,000 volts to fire the ST125.
Not to be smart but as anyone check the fuel in the carb
Frankandthebeans
,
>From: Roger Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [classicrv] Re: Dodge Sportsman 360 Ignition Problem
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:25:21 -0500
>
>At 07:11 PM 12/30/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
> >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
>
>*****************************************
>Roger, Karen, and Heather Phillips
>1982 32' Coachmen President
>Oxford, Indiana
>http://www.crbest.com/coachman
>*****************************************
>
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