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Hey all, Hard wired a line from the battery. Started right up. Now I know its an electrical problem. Thanks for the help.!1

Thanks for all the replies. Im leaning toward the weak voltage at the coil. I may try to throw a hard wire to the coil and see how it starts. Ill post an update.

I bought the car already converted last year. Not sure how old the belt is. It just seems weird that this starting issue only occured after I tried to fix the problem. Would the wrong wires on the +/- side of the coil cause this. There are 2 wires coming from the distributor. One black and one yellow. I have the yellow on the negative and the black on the positive. Im pretty sure that is how it was when I got it. Does that make sense? I messed around with timing but it does not seem to be out of time. Once its running that is. Would a bad rotor cause this? Bad distributor? What gives?

Hello all, New to the board and not sure if this is the right place. Anyhow, the problem is, I have an EA81 engine in a VW beetle. A couple months ago, I had some wiring issues in the car so I started to mess around. Initially I thought I the coil was bad so I replaced the MSD coil with an Accel coil. Turned out that this was not the problem. A wire had shaken loose. So today I go out spray some starting fluid in the carb and get it running. Took a while for it to run and it ran as it did before. The problem is that I have a really tough time getting it to start. First I thought it was a fuel problem, but it stays on when started and the fuel prssure seems to be ok. I am convinced that there is an ignition problem but I don't know where else to look. The weird thing is that each time it has started, it seemed to have fired right as I was going to turn the engine off. As I moved the key a tiny bit in the off direction. Does anyone have any ideas? I would greatly appreciate it.