u/Thinsquirrel

Replaced Spark plugs, wires, distributor cap, and distributor seal, but now am faced with a no-start.

Battery is new and cranks over fine, ran earlier today so I’m certain it’s not timing related.

I cleaned the rotor surface and pulled all plugs out and connected them to the wires and at TDC for cylinder 1 saw all spark plugs firing in correct order.

Smells like fuel when spark plugs out and cranking.

I’ve seen people talk about a main relay and I’m wondering if pulling off the distributor cover with the battery still attached could’ve fried the aging relay or if it’s something I’m overlooking.

Any advice or a better subreddit to post would be appreciated.

Replaced Spark plugs, wires, distributor cap, and distributor seal, but now am faced with a no-start.

Battery is new and cranks over fine, ran earlier today so it’s not timing related.

I cleaned the rotor surface and pulled all plugs out and connected them to the wires and at TDC for cylinder 1 saw all spark plugs firing in correct order.

Smells like fuel when spark plugs out and cranking.

I’ve seen people talk about a main relay and I’m wondering if pulling off the distributor cover with the battery still attached could’ve fried the aging relay or if it’s something I’m overlooking.

Any advice or a better subreddit to post would be appreciated.

1: Fields all locked or by reservation.
2: Constantly incorrect park listings as having soccer fields where it’s either a patch of shitty grass or the goals have been taken down since it’s “out of season” (it’s fucking summer, hello?)
3: Paid sports complexes
4: Parks and Recs doesn’t even have an ability to sort by soccer field on official website
5: School owned fields patrolled by security kicking people out
6: Fields that DO have goals have them chained away (looking at you Hickman fields)
7: I have no idea where to look for non league pickup games.

I got so spoiled by the experience of being able to go to literally an endless amount of well lit fields with goals or even makeshift goals in NYC where you’ll find some Latinos playing for beer money who’ll invite anyone and get a game going or even the fields in Brooklyn or by the Piers. For such a beautiful city with its own stadium and team it feels like something as basic as participation in the most popular game in the world is hidden behind bureaucracy or paywalls.

TLDR; I just want to kick a ball at a goal with some people and I’ve been so defeated by the process.