sub-dude

last night it wasn't turning over. the dash lights slowly got brighter and no other cliking... this morning it fired right up! loose wire or siolenoid sticky?

Well, thought I had it fixed. It ran two times since I fixed the timming belts, Now it won't even turn over. when I turn the Ignition on the lights slowly go from out(no dash lights) to full(dash lights on), but there is no cliking or starting. Battery is reading 12.7v, Fuses are all good...fuseable links are good...Wiggled all the wires at the fuse box, timer, ignition and junctions, starter, battery, alternator... Bad ignition? Ground out somwhere?

Well I got over that hill... Onto the next ones. It was all because of a broken timing belt, and I should have checked for spark first instead of fuel. $50 and about 2 hrs of fiddlin' put both timing belts in and it fired right up. Thanks to everyone who helped!!! A lot of great info!!! Now we are 240,000 miles and counting again.

well, here is another stupid question... where would I find the ECU? Is it the "timer" (blackbox-six wires) attached to the steering collum? I haven't found an ECM with the blinking light, or anything like a control module or fuel relay that is described in the books...

Well I'll Be tied up with a ground wire and beaten raw... It doesn't!!How does that stop power to the fuel pump? I say some fricken' fairies fricked it up.-----

is the solenoid part of the fuel pump circuit? is it on the carb body? I guess I'm wondering what the original cause of the breakdown could be... I thought that the fuel pump was shot, and found no power at the pump all the way back to the timer box where the pump wire becomes two or three and runs thru the body to the engine compartment. I can't find where that wire goes yet, and in theory it should lead me to the original source of my woes. Every wiring diagram shows the fuel pump as a stand alone circuit, but somthing else is holding up power to the pump. I've checked the fuse panel and can't get continuity between the pump and panel, that's when I hotwired the pump and found that it works. I found one circuit that had no power and will track that next.

WEll, I can't figure it out... IT quit running climbing a small hill with a little cough, and now it won't start. Turns over fine. THought it was the fuel pump and after tracking the pos wire as far as I could decided to jump the pump from the fuse pannel, now the pump works and fuel is to the carb but not spraying thru the venturi, so it still won't run. No fuse was blown, the fusable links are good, what else is the fuel pump connected to that could suddenly stop it? The timerbox? I can'tfind an ECM or fuel pump relay anywhere...