87 Manche 2.5l

[ComancheCrusher9800]

Okay so my old engine died so I rebuild the one out of my older mj. I went to put it in and hooked everything back up and it won't start. It'll sit there and crank. I didn't aline the hormonic balancer the right way with the marker but I don't think that should matter because the dots were aligned on the timing sprockets. And I do have gas and it will turn over so I know it's something with the spark. But to do with that. I am getting spark from the coil but not from the distributor. The spark has gone back the distributor ( I know because it got me when in did) but I couldn't see the spark jumping every time with every plug wire and I don't see why. Can someone please help me with this

 

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[Jeep Driver]

Your dist is out of phase. 

 

Go to TDC...........that mark you ignored.........on the compression stroke and index your dist. 

[ComancheCrusher9800]

Say that one more time without all of the dots

 

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[Big Dan]

He's saying to set the #1 cylinder to top dead center on the compression stroke.  And, index your distributor.  Your distributor timing is out of whack.

[ComancheCrusher9800]

I get a spark in #1 cylinder only. None of the other cylinders have spark

 

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[ComancheCrusher9800]

And I did that

 

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[ComancheCrusher9800]

The camshaft sprocket came off. We put it back on. Don't know if it works yet but will see in the morning

 

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[ComancheCrusher9800]

Worked. Distributor was 180° wrong though so had to reset it.

 

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