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What would the yellow to yellow wire be?
Would love to know what colour wires do what from the factory loom as well.
So I am certain the pump has failed which would make sense. I drove the car 1 hour when bringing it home. Stopped for half an hour to load up the spare engine. Drove about 50 Meters and the car stalled and wouldn't start on petrol again. Had to switch to LPG and get home on that instead.
Didn't try petrol again.
My car is running an aftermarket fuel tank because my LPG tank was in the factory position. Do you reckon they would have just used the factory fuel pump in the aftermarket tank? I stuffed my back today so I can't drop the tank to check!
Cheers mudnut.
I poured a little bit of fuel down the carby on my old man's advice and cranked the engine. Nothing happened.... I'm at a loss. I have spark, not sure why it didn't at least cough and splutter. Just wanted to see if it would at least do something. Maybe I installed the distributor wrong. I set the engine to TDC and the distributor was pointing at cylinder 1, at least I think it was the right way round. It was the metallic part pointing to cylinder 1. Is it the right way round?
You need piston Number One to be on the compression stroke. To do this get someone to place their thumb over the spark plug hole and feel for pressure as you rotate the motor by hand.
Bit of an update.....
Had a horror past 3 months with my old man falling very ill and me having to be in Melbourne for most of the time. The GQ sat in the driveway at a stand still. Anyway. I had a local auto elec come a d have a squiz the other day, as I was sick of looking at it. I replaced rotor button and distributor cap. Still had no spark. Sparky unplugged and reconnected a few plugs here and there. Poked this and poked that. Still no spark. Then all of a sudden it fired up...... Still unsure of what it was, but it's running.
The fuel pump also had a dicky connection down IN the tank, that was repaired and it's all good. The carby needs a rebuild BUT I am going to get the GQ a RWC and rego then convert it to EFI. I have all the parts sitting here ready to go.
Glad to report my novice mechanical skills were spot on and head gasket, engine timing etc are all good.
So I should have the GQ on the road in a week or so. Will post a more thorough update then.
Cheers