thanks for your help mike. i imported the car to the uk, and just got it road legal. i had the whole fuel system replaced, which made the car run, and today i tried to repair the last problem, the tachometer (so i thought.) i tried to use a dwell meter & timing light to read the rpm, i dont know much about it, but i thought if the meter could read the rpm, the gauge would be faulty, and if the meter couldnt, it would be the sender. but the inductive pickup couldnt get a signal. checking the plugs (earthing on the block) revealed cylinders 1,2 & 3 have no spark. 4 5 & 6 have MASSIVE sparks. i had read on the forum that people had thought the car was slow when they first drove it, so i thought nothing was wrong! --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mike.griese@xxxx wrote: > > Andy - That peg is called the rotor... > > You may also have a fuel injector problem on those cylinders. If you > have a timing light, put it on one of the bad cylinders and see if it > fires. If you don't have a light, remove one of the spark plugs from the > bad cylinders. Attach it to the spark plug wire and hold the side of the > plug against the block with a pair of pliers gripping the spark plug > boot and start the car. If you see a spark, you have a fuel delivery > problem, not an ignition problem. > > -- > Mike > > > -------------- Original message from "odell_andy" <odell_andy@xxxx>: -------------- > > > > the distributor cap & spinning peg(?) are brand new, so are the leads. > > plugs all test good. the white/slate wire is connected to the > > distributor base. What would cause only the Left 3 plugs to fire? > > distributor cap is on correctly. all parts are from delorean specialists. > > any ideas? > > > > [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 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/