Whenever you change or swap a fuel distributor a CO adjustment MUST be performed or the car will run poorly if at all. Try turning the 3mm CO adj. screw clockwise (richer)exactly one turn at a time until the car will start and hold an idle(COUNT the turns as you proceed). If this doesn't improve the situation after five complete turns then turn the screw counterclockwise six turns to start the process in the reverse direction (leaner). To understand how sensitive this adjustment is realize that the car usually won't even run if you are out by more than ONE turn. Once running have a COMPITENT MECHANIC with the PROPER TOOLS perform the CO adjustment procedure as per the service manual. NEVER adjust the CO final setting because the setting must be within 1/16th of a turn for the car to run properly! -----Original Message----- From: advantics@xxxxxxx [mailto:advantics@xxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 7:45 AM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [DML] Re: won't start The car ran when I got it, then one day it just didn't start. I was getting plenty of spark but no fuel when I pulled an injector. When I pulled the fuel line going to the fuel distributor, I had fuel going to it but the fuel getting in the engine was next to nothing. It would sputter and try to start but it would just tease me. I had thought the fuel distributor and injectors were clogged, and so I bought new injectors and took the fuel distributor and cold start valve off my other D. Still the same problem, only difference is it will try to start and sometimes run for 10 or 20 seconds but dies out as soon as I take my foot off the gas. The few seconds that it does run it smokes a lot. I know I got the lines all back correctly and it helps that I have another D to look at, and even swap parts with to see if something bad. It runs great, and I have since tried some of the "bad" parts on it, only to find that they work fine. I don't know these cars at all, but am trying to learn. I feel like I'm learning a lot and nothing all at the same time. I have a plastics manufacturing business where I've built all my equipment from scratch, so I know how to turn a wrench. But this has been a humbling experience, to say the least. I guess I'm back to square one, with the same problem except a new fuel system. I can't help but think it's just something simple, and I am at your mercy. John 5326 & 1383 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/