My 1989 hasnt really started for 9 months.

It's been sitting waiting for the turbo swap.....


Well, now comes the time to move it out front and into the garage to do the swap. But she will not start.


-Turns over fine
-Fuel pump comes on
-It's getting fuel (fuel sprays from schrader valve)
-It's getting spark


It didn't really run right when it was parked. It would heat up and just crap on itself at the red light.

It would stall at lights, once it started again it would be a dog and you would have to ease into it slowly to get her going. Once you were going pretty quick it was fine?


I don't know....

I have all these new parts for it:

-Gas tank and 255 high pressure walbro pump, new inline filter
-Turbocoupe engine and T5
-Ranger radiator, and Volvo intercooler
-LA3 and large VAM
-Battery re-location (trunk)
-Tons of other goodies

So I dont care about the drivetrin in the car I need it to run though....

Thanks guys.

 

if its been sitting for that long with no crank the gas is bad, and the lines might be gunked up. i ould flush the lins and the tank.

 

why dont you just tow or push it that far? if you want the swap done bad enough lol you'd probably do anything.

 

worst case u could pop in neutral and push it.

 

Pushing it to the front of the house is not a problem. But pushing it up the driveway and into the garage is impossible.

I'm not going to bust my *** getting it running just to drive it around the house and tear it apart.

I listed it for sale on Craigslist.

http://maine.craigslist.org/car/421615089.html

 

I think it'scompression. How much u wanna sell it for? I'd probably buy it if I didn't live so far.

 

I have no way to tes thte compression. Maybe I'll borrow a compression gauge from school tomorrow.

The car is not worth much at all, especially not running.

 

man i would love to buy that car, but i can't get it here tho.

 

You would? Why?


Hey, I might be onto something here.....

The oil pressure gauge always read real low and when this stuff happened it read below zero. I know the motor is healthy.

If the oil pressure sending unit is junk and read no oil pressure will it keep the car from starting??

 

Could belt jumped timing. Pop cover off and look. I just posted picture of timing belt marks on post " need help fast". If so just retime and move it and do swap.