Yah, not *hot wiring* but take a screwdriver and link the connections. Its not really hot wiring cause you have to have the key turned in the ignition for it to start unless you hot wire that along with it.

 

This may sound silly, but also make sure that your battery cables are tight on BOTH ends and not corroded. The one that went down to my starter was once loose enough that although it wasn't a break in the circuit, the resistance was too much to get the starter spinning fast enough. Same thing for a corroded cable. Been there, been stumped by both. The ignition switch has come up... Been there, too, same thing.

However, if your starter is spinning as normal, then, yeah, you're either missing air, fuel or spark, so start troubleshooting those as described by other members.

Whenever I have a hard starting problem, I begin with the starting system because it's cheap and easy to troubleshoot before I dive into the ignition system or fuel system.

 

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OK, I am heading out to try all those fixes. If you don't hear from me I got it started. Thanks for all the help, I am just starting to learn all this stuff and I appreciate it.

 

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I once had the wiring and connector on the backside of the ignition switch fry to the point of too much resistance as well as the switch itself wearing out...to the point where my key would take three or four--or ten--tries before it would turn...and I still had to jiggle the wires on the backside so they'd actually connect while fighting to turn the key... Lesson learned=too much resistance generates heat which will melt plastic (connector) insulation (the wires themselves) and more importantly keep the darn car from running!

Good luck solidGas!!!!!

 

Good luck man! If you do get it started, tell us!! Cause i wanna know what it was.

 

Well, I got it started, and when it started it was a real rough start. What I did was took the distributor cap off, checked the points. Then I checked the coil wire it was connected , but might have been a little loose. The points looked fine, as I expected since are new. The connections under the distributor cap were kinda worn, I will get a new one, and probably upgrade to pentronics.

I didn't have to touch the carb.

Like I said she started up rough but was strong all the way home. I really need to start learning more about this stuff.

Thanks for all the help.

 

Soaring a guy I worked with tried pulling the coil wire off his wife's VW bug that he claimed she was running the wheels off of. At lunch time she drove up in it with a coat hanger run between the coil and dist. cap. It ran fine like that.

On the same line, we used to play practical jokes on each other. A good one is to switch the coil wire with one of the cylinder wires on the cap. Everytime the two line up it will fire the one cylinder. It's just enough to give hope it's going to start, but never will.

 

Damn you are mean!! How do you do that?? Whenever my dad pisses me off I will just have to do thatGive me some specific directions plz!!

 

Step two would be removing your name from the last will and testament, getting kicked out of the house and finding all your remaining worldly possessions in the custody of Goodwill.
Jim