Starter Cranks > engine wont start
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Originally Posted by highboy
I believe the regulator does ground through the chassis. i had an 81 f 150 that wasnt charging, and the mounting screws were loose. i retightend em and it worked again! well, for about a week. then the alternator craped out.
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No.
Does it try to start? or can you smell gasoline? I highly doubt that your module went bad, although its a possibility. A lot of times, when you fry the electrical system, the pickup in the distributor gets damaged. If it is, it won't even try to "catch". The module kind of protects itself when its exposed to a lot of energy.
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Does it try to start? or can you smell gasoline? I highly doubt that your module went bad, although its a possibility. A lot of times, when you fry the electrical system, the pickup in the distributor gets damaged. If it is, it won't even try to "catch". The module kind of protects itself when its exposed to a lot of energy.
Good luck, and welcome to FTE!
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I put a little gas in the carb and on the first revolution of the starter it kind tries to start then nothing at all and after that it just turns. Then I can kinda hear the battery starting to go down. At that point I take the battery out and put it back into the chevy so I don't have two dead cars sitting in the driveway.
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is the distributor the only source or could it be the regulator a bad ground ect... the fuse-link is only spliced together right now . could it maybe be the alternator ?????
Im gonna check everything this weekend I have always been weary of dizzy installs I always thought they might be a pita to install. how hard is it to install a distributor.
Im gonna check everything this weekend I have always been weary of dizzy installs I always thought they might be a pita to install. how hard is it to install a distributor.
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No. If its a bad ground, the enigne won't turn over, if its the regulator, your battery won't charge or it will over charge, if its the alternator, your battery won't charge or it will over charge.
The distributor is really easy to install, just take your cap off, line up the rotors, and set it in and plug in the pickup and you are good to go.
The distributor is really easy to install, just take your cap off, line up the rotors, and set it in and plug in the pickup and you are good to go.
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so could an improperly grounded regulator cause my engine to crank but not start ?
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No, these are TWO completely different systems.
Starter Turning over = Starting system
Voltage Reg = Charging system.
btw, the Diodes in the alternator is the first thing in line of the charging system,not the Voltage Regulator
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No, these are TWO completely different systems.
Starter Turning over = Starting system
Voltage Reg = Charging system.
btw, the Diodes in the alternator is the first thing in line of the charging system,not the Voltage Regulator
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I had a problem where my fuel pump wasn't totally gone, but it would allow fuel to drain back down the line when it sat. It wasn't a fast drain and wouldn't affect drivability at first. I replaced it when I found that it was the problem. It still squirted fine, but everything else was good so it had to be the fuel pump. At first the truck took a little more crankin than usual to start, but eventually it took a lot of crankin to start. A cheapy fuel pump fixed everything, maybe you should give it a try.
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First off you need to get yourself a multimeter and check your battery and do some voltage drop tests, hook up the meter to the pos and neg on the battery and crank the engine over if you battery goes below 9.6 volts you need a new battery or you have loose or corrided cables or you may have a bad starter but start with the battery first. If all the starting circuits are ok then you need to check for spark at the plug wirers if you have spark ok if not check the horseshoe plug connector to the coil it might look good but test it anyway these were a common problem on this truck if that's all ok then you need to check the fuel system ie. pump filter and tank and pickup in the tank.
Hope this helps.
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Hope this helps.
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Ok everybody here is an update I was looking over the engine compartment a few nights ago and it seemed as if I saw a wire just kinda hanging from the fire wall well I wasn't sure because it was getting dark out . I went out the next morning and see that I was right there is a black wire hanging from the back the firewall but it leads to nowhere its a black wire with an eyelet hook on the end and I don't know what it is mabey a ground wire if so I don't know where it goes.
Could this be the cause of my problem.
Could this be the cause of my problem.