car wont start????

[geoffersmasher]

changed water pump on the xflow and tried to start the car and now it just turns over on the ignoition but its like it wont spark up and get running

 

checked cables and also made sure not to touch the bottom pulley so timing should still be fine

 

only thing i can think is the bults on the piss as the pump pulley is sitting futher in, but it has always been a bit off so it should be fine

 

 

any ideas folk

[countrybumpkin]

changing the water pump on a xflow shoudnt do anything to how the engine runs, the only things i can sugest is make sure you havn't pulled any wires off

[Deano1351]

Touching the bottom pulley wont affect the timing coz the x-flow got a fixed timing chain, sounds like a wires come off somewhere if it was ok before, just check all wires around the dizzy and coil, (it has got fuel hasnt it?? )

[w p e]

geoff put the low tention wire back on the coil youve knocked of

[72mk1escort]

I done this have you taken the distributer cap off as you may have some water in there from where you changed the waterpump as water goes everywhere when you pull the bottom hose off

 

Probably just moisture in the cap

[caprinerd]

are you getting spark at the points, is the rotor arm clean, are the coil leads on firmly, is there power in the coil ,is there power out the coil, it could be a number of things just check through the old skool way. condenser might have gone up the swanny buy a new set of points and a condenser make sure the dizzy cap and the rotor arm are in good condition,are you getting petrol through, with out working on it for you its hard to put a finger on what it could be

[lotusless]

are you sure you have petrol in it

 

 

you could always call ratman