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If the timing chain moved, the engine will probably "sound" a little different while cranking it over. Also, from your sequence of events, it sounds like the car was idling (or at least low-speed/low-load) when it died. You didn't mention what kind of distributor you had. I had an incident a couple years ago with my HEI and an Accel Super Coil, which was less than a month old at the time. One of the coil's wire's insulation crumbled off inside the cap and it started grounding out internally. I was driving the car on a long-ish trip and during the drive back it started running poorly. I finally pulled off on the side of the road to check it out and it wouldn't fire again. (when I say running poorly, the engine was needing a full 1/4 throttle just to maintain 55 MPH on flat land). Swapping the coil fixed it. If you doubt the ignition switch, that should be easy enough to bypass with some aligator clips for testing purposes. Run power directly to the coil from the battery, and crank the engine over. Remember, the car was running fine right before things went south, so the likelihood that it's something major is low. Maybe it's also possible your mechanical pump just happened to die and that getting it to start while fiddling with the timing was a stroke of good luck? Ya gotta have fuel and spark, so I'd check those things first. -Dave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of 396guy Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Chevelle-List] Ignition woes (Vette, kinda long) Timing chain slip maybe? Dale Yesterday I fiddled around with it and got it running by slowly moving the distributor until it fired. It seemed to be running ok, I even went and got gas. Sure enough, the movers show up this morning and I go to move the Vette and the damn thing won't start! It'll turn over forever but it just won't start. I pulled the #1 plug and checked my timing about a dozen times, I pulled the valve covers and the valve train appears to be working properly, I even went to Autozone and got another distributor just to see if that was the problem, no dice. This is really irritating considering it was running just fine before the little road trip! The only other thing I can think of is the ignition switch is bad. I installed a new one a few years back for some reason (I still have the original). Even if the ignition switch was bad that wouldn't explain why it died the way it did. Am I missing something? Any suggestions? Thanks guys (and gal)... cYa- Herb Lumpp 1966 El Camino ACES #3509 http://web.tampabay.rr.com/herbsworld/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
