I found 1 owner 88 3 door dl with 120000 miles locally and i'm not letting this car slip away like the last one anyway let me cut to the chase. the owner told me it had a break t belt when it was panked 4 years ago so got i looked it over today the tbelts are fine pulled the plugs out of the covers to verify that so, its not the tbelts i ask the owner what happened when it broke down she said it just quit running and glided to a stop so, i check the fuel pump it its fine runs and has 43 psi so, i pulled the air duck the thottle body pure gas in the thottle body

no start i didn't know if it has spark or it problely don't so,

 

 

help please

To check for spark I would grab a spare plug and put it in one of the plugwires and then place it on a good engine ground point. Then crank the engine and see if spark is getting to the plug. If you have no spark, then check for voltage getting to the plus and minus sides of the coil.

the tbelts are fine pulled the plugs out of the covers to verify that so, its not the tbelts

 

did you crank the engine over and verify that the rotor spins? when my tbelt broke, it just stripped some teeth off the belt. When I got the covers off, the belts looked intact, but only once I got the front main cover off did I see the teeth lying in the bottom of the cover.

 

good luck

i sencond the stripped teeth notion.

 

i run open belts, no covers that is. my car quit. i get under the hood and see both belts are still there. turn the key and no start. perplexes me for a monment. then i jump the solenoid from under the hood so i can watch the belts. crank pully spins but drivers belt just sat there. stripped teeth on the belt around the crank sproket

 

check to see if the rotor turns this is a more reliable method than feeling thru access plugs. those plugs are for adjustment of the tensioner, by design and the fact that they are there

the rotor turns when the key its in the start pision what would it be if the coil has no ground the disty?

may6be the distributor itself could be bad? i put my car together and got no fuel or spark, put on a different disty and blam she runs still 10000 miles later

The ignitor may be the problem if you have no spark.

thats i have a both of them so, would you buy it with whats wrong with it having the parts that could fix it that is. i know given the time i can fix any thing wrong with the car but it needs to be running by this fall when i go back to collage in dever co. i hope its the disty so, i can retire the which has 563,341 miles give or take a mile or so, it needs all the frontend parts replaced steering rack and, all besides the quart of oil it burns every 500 miles it needs rings bad