Jaysz28
04-19-2002, 01:58 AM
Ok... the car is running! Decently at that.
It was the coolant temperature circuit (code 15)
Now the reason it wouldn't start is a culmination of operator head space errors that I made while trouble shooting the no start problem.
Initially it wouldn't start because it flooded. I didn't catch that at first. First thing I did when it didn't start, was too verify the rotor turned and it was pointing at the #1 plug wire. It was. So I swapped the cap and rotor off of my Z. I started swapping parts off of my Z cause it ran and I feel that this was my first mistake. Which ultimately caused this diaster. See I mark all my caps on the #1 terminal so it is easier to put back together if I do any work or troubleshooting. It never occured to me that the two cars would have a different #1 terminal on the cap. See where I am going with this? I ended up getting the firing order one terminal off! Right from the start.
Now the old cap and rotor were about 2 yrs old and had about 10k or so on them. The wires were older, but looked ok. I noticed when I replaced them, that two of them had bright white arc marks on them. Apparently my grubby hands coated them in grease when I was checking for cuts and what not. Yes, I took degreaser to my old plug wires looking for answers. So between the car dumping extra fuel thinking it was cold out, worn, but not bad cap and rotor, plus the wires being somewhat toasty caused the original problem. I had spark, fuel (too much) and timing. When I swapped parts originally I got the wires off by one terminal and there was the frustration. I had checked everything with a timing light and I was convinced that the timing chain had jumped. I even went out and bought new one! So I am taking it apart, pulled the fans out, pulled the waterpump pulley and what not. I decided to clean up the timing marker so you could read it. And I figured I better line up the balancer marks against it now so I don't forget to later. Then for giggles, I popped the cap and saw that it was pointing at the #8 terminal instead of the #1 terminal I had marked! So I stopped, rewired the cap, and it fired on the first try. Then of course gave me the code for the CTS.
sorry for the long winded explanation, but I think it is best. Maybe it will help someone else down the road. I will now turn in my auto repair license and never touch a 3rd gen again (yeah right!)
btw, it was something simple... go figure :rolleyes:
Thanks Everyone!
It was the coolant temperature circuit (code 15)
Now the reason it wouldn't start is a culmination of operator head space errors that I made while trouble shooting the no start problem.
Initially it wouldn't start because it flooded. I didn't catch that at first. First thing I did when it didn't start, was too verify the rotor turned and it was pointing at the #1 plug wire. It was. So I swapped the cap and rotor off of my Z. I started swapping parts off of my Z cause it ran and I feel that this was my first mistake. Which ultimately caused this diaster. See I mark all my caps on the #1 terminal so it is easier to put back together if I do any work or troubleshooting. It never occured to me that the two cars would have a different #1 terminal on the cap. See where I am going with this? I ended up getting the firing order one terminal off! Right from the start.
Now the old cap and rotor were about 2 yrs old and had about 10k or so on them. The wires were older, but looked ok. I noticed when I replaced them, that two of them had bright white arc marks on them. Apparently my grubby hands coated them in grease when I was checking for cuts and what not. Yes, I took degreaser to my old plug wires looking for answers. So between the car dumping extra fuel thinking it was cold out, worn, but not bad cap and rotor, plus the wires being somewhat toasty caused the original problem. I had spark, fuel (too much) and timing. When I swapped parts originally I got the wires off by one terminal and there was the frustration. I had checked everything with a timing light and I was convinced that the timing chain had jumped. I even went out and bought new one! So I am taking it apart, pulled the fans out, pulled the waterpump pulley and what not. I decided to clean up the timing marker so you could read it. And I figured I better line up the balancer marks against it now so I don't forget to later. Then for giggles, I popped the cap and saw that it was pointing at the #8 terminal instead of the #1 terminal I had marked! So I stopped, rewired the cap, and it fired on the first try. Then of course gave me the code for the CTS.
sorry for the long winded explanation, but I think it is best. Maybe it will help someone else down the road. I will now turn in my auto repair license and never touch a 3rd gen again (yeah right!)
btw, it was something simple... go figure :rolleyes:
Thanks Everyone!