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Old 09-21-2004, 11:59 PM
psfred psfred is offline
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Check your alternator wiring -- the ECU shuts the pump off if the engine isn't running, and the alternator output may be a signal. You may have also disturbed the wiring at the dizzy so the ECU thinks the engine didn't start (separate computers for fuel and ignition on that car).

Most likely it's something at the dizzy.

It could also be that you have it so rich it just floods out and the ECU is shutting off the fuel pump. I don't remember which way to turn the screw to control the mixture, you will have to do a search or use a VOM with duty cycle function to re-set the mixture.

Inability to set the timing correctly indicates to me some sort of damage to the wiring and hence intermittant ignition. You should have only needed to get the dizzy close to correct to get it set.

Peter

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