RE: [DML] Re: won't start

["PJ Grady" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


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