77 TA No Fire

Do you have a voltmeter?
If so does the red battery wire on the distributor have 12 volts with the key in the run position?
 
I have a multimeter. The IC was bad, the white wire broke off. I will test the red wire tomorrow. I got Pneumonia and it's kicking my butt right now. It's 22 degrees, too cold for me right now.

Thank you for all your help.
 
Where do I put the black lead, on the black wire?
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Are you talking about the three wires going to the distributor?
Is the black one cut?
 
starting at about 4 min this video shows the wires, the black is the ground and attaches to a screw
 
Spark plug wires are wrong, trying to fix it now.
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Well putting the wires on correctly helped but it still doesn't start. Can we post videos here?
 
I believe videos would be same process as pictures.
Did you determine the wires are 18436572 sequence?
As i stated earlier get the timing mark on the balancer lined up with the degree marker on the timing cover .
Remove the distributor cap and see if the rotor is pointing to 1 or 6. Then go counterclockwise to see if the end in the cap is connected to the correct plug.
 
I am sorry but I have no idea of what your talking about. If it's timing I don't know how and I don't have the gun to do it.
 
I never said you should set the timing. Im trying to get you to determine if the plug wires got mixed up.
After replacing the coil, do you have spark at the plugs?
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melsg5 said:
I never said you should set the timing. Im trying to get you to determine if the plug wires got mixed up.
After replacing the coil, do you have spark at the plugs?
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Yes, the car is trying real hard to start, it just can't do it. I even get exhaust from the tail pipes. The carburetor keeps vomiting up grey smoke and fluid that I am assuming is gas.
 
So have you determined if the plug wires got mixed up and now they are correct?
 
Have you removed the fuel line to the carburetor, held a container on the line, and had someone crank the engine to make sure you have gasoline.
Better yet would be a pressure test
 
melsg5 said:
So have you determined if the plug wires got mixed up and now they are correct?
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Yes we got the spark plug wires figured out. They were messed up.
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I believe you had a running engine after the issue with the NSS?
If so, and you then did all of those other things on your list, then one of them is related to the current no start situation.
That leaves the fuel pump or the plugs.
 
Fuel pump is working, I disconnected the fuel line and let it pump out a lot of bad gas. I also have a temporary glass filter on the line between the carburetor and the fuel inlet and can view the gas moving into the carburetor. Honestly I believe it was a fluke that it started. The plugs were gapped anywhere from 25 to 65 & where fouled out. The old pump was rusted shut and didn't operate. When it started we poured new gas into the carburetor. We have since tried that several times but it's not working.

The car sat outside for years with no cover over the carburetor, so I am wondering if there's not an issue there. It was also out of oil when I started it, this was my fault as I forgot to check the oil. I have since put 5 quarts of 10w-30 in it.
 
For some reason I thought the carburetor was new . That may be something to check into, the old gasoline may have gummed up inside the carburetor and depending on how it was stored outside, water is another possibility.
 
The choke is working correctly?
 
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