help me start my burb! Please :D
 

Picked up my 89 burb this weekend from the 2nd shop that's had it (it's actually a new one, the one i bought done for $4500 was too far gone and got scrapped) but it was not close to being done. I was supposed to pick it up in April completely done, i picked it up 9 months later and he fabbed half the floor and almost all the dash mounts when we got there :(

Anyway, he said it ran before but blew out the freeze plug and now it won't start. It cranks fine, but won't even try to catch. It's getting gas, timing seems ok, what else could it be?

Re: help me start my burb! Please :D
 

Three things the internal combustion engine needs to run; Fuel, Ignition, and Compression. All at the proper time of course. If you are confident about the fuel and fire, the only thing left would be the compression.

Sorry to over simplify, but not a lot of info to go on in you inquiry.

Re: help me start my burb! Please :D
 

sorry, i didn't get to go into much detail. Looks like it's getting fuel (the injectors were squirting gas in the throttle body), compression seems pretty good, but when we grounded the spark plug against the header, it wouldn't spark every time, only like every 3rd or 4th time. We didn't know if we just were not grounding it properly or it was something in the rotor, cap, distributor, or coil. We took the cap and rotor apart and cleaned it really good (the wheel in the rotor was pretty rusty), had the ignition module tested, but are still drawing a blank. I'm not very knowledgeable about motors, but the only other things i can think of are the coil, fuel filter (it sat about a year before being started, the guy may not have thought to change the fuel filter), make sure it has gas (but idk why it would not because we're getting fuel squirted in the tb). Anything else it may be?

Re: help me start my burb! Please :D
 

try the electronic controller (I don't remember its name) under the HEI distributor cap. Mine was bad and did the same thing.

Re: help me start my burb! Please :D
 

had it tested and it's fine.