February 10, 200422 yr I'm having a bit of trouble with my '84 GL 2wd wagon. Last time I drove it 2-3 months ago, it had sat with the hood off for a while, got a lil snow on it, but it fired up and ran. I drove it for about 20 minutes and it started to idle rough (common for that car) and then it just died, never to start agian. It's getting fuel and I've changed the dist and the coil but with no sucess. What the h*ll could be keeping this thing from running?! I honestly don't think it's getting fire, it turns over great, but it never seems to hit to start. Any suggestions? (other than don't let it set with the hood off :-p )
February 11, 200422 yr have you checked the carb. i bought a brat with no nose on it sat almost a year like that screwed the carb all up be open to the weather like that
February 11, 200422 yr if you can get it running again, run some carb cleaner or Seafoam through the top of the carb.. should help.. 2 bottles of heet in the gas tank Pull your plugs and see if you got spark if not you got a problem with the disty/coil
February 17, 200422 yr Author Sorry I didn't reply for so long, been busy with work and other car issues. I had a little time to play with the soob a bit and it appears I am not getting any power to the coil. What would cause this, I'm in need of a fix fast... I've got a month to get it running and my other '84 soob parted out before my stepdad has them both junked.
February 17, 200422 yr run the coil straight off the battery (b+ to +coil) to get it running, if the coil doesn not get power. but i tell you to do this for the sake of moving the car if you have to, till you fix the real problem by connecting it this way, the whole car should power up ads if the key was in the run position, its possible to start the car from under the hood withthe doors locked and the key in the ign!!! dont let skip tell you your car will burn to the ground
February 17, 200422 yr arf arf dont let skip tell you your car will burn to the ground did he say this because his suggestion will have you do this? Just asking, because if a rodent or some other cause has created a short in the wiring to the fuse box... well A direct unfused hot wire to the battery positive could...??? Did you by chance check fuse #13 as I believe on your model, this fuse provides power for the coil. The pink connector under the steering column that connects the ignition switch to the vehicle, has been known to cause problems also. Hope this helps
February 17, 200422 yr Originally posted by Skip arf arf dont let skip tell you your car will burn to the ground did he say this because his suggestion will have you do this? Just asking, because if a rodent or some other cause has created a short in the wiring to the fuse box... well A direct unfused hot wire to the battery positive could...??? Did you by chance check fuse #13 as I believe on your model, this fuse provides power for the coil. The pink connector under the steering column that connects the ignition switch to the vehicle, has been known to cause problems also. Hope this helps Use a very small guage wire like 20. This way the wire will burn apart berfore the car. Anyhow, this sounds like what happaned to me once. I let my brat sit for several montsh while trying to figure out why I had a massive backfire. Then I went to work on it again only to have issues starting it. I did the same thing as Miles suggested and got mine running. Turned out to be a bad ignition switch. Easy way to tell this is turn the lights on and then try to start the car. Since the lights are run off the same circuit of the ignition switch they sould stay on while trying to start. If they go out then you've found the problem. You could probably try this before jumping the coil directly to the battery if you're worried about things blowing up. Keith
February 18, 200422 yr Author The car turns over, so does the ingition switch thing hold true still? I'm gonna try the coil trick tomorrow and see if that works. Thanks gang, I'll let you all know how it turns out.
February 18, 200422 yr Originally posted by GoldDiggerRoo The car turns over, so does the ingition switch thing hold true still? Yes. It's possible (and common) for the Start contact on the ign switch to work fine, but the run contact (to the coil, and other things) to be bad. I agree with Skip: check the fuse for that wire run first. If you decide to use the jumper wire, make damned sure that you connect it to the '+' side of the coil, because if you connect it to the '-' side, kiss the ignitor goodbye.
February 18, 200422 yr skip, i am talking about moving it around the driveway. i think its a fun and clever trick, i will be using the coil circuit on my TRASHWAGON to power the ej 22 ecu, and all that trash. i will be using the legacy's relays where necessary
February 19, 200422 yr Author well, I checked the fuses, all were fine, I also did the coil to the battery thing and got no results. I think I may have gotten the timing off now, but the thing didn;t even try to run. I'm lost...
February 19, 200422 yr get yourself a test light or a multimeter, to see if yo have power at the coil also, the haynes manual has very useful wiring schematics you can go from, for troubleshooting
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now