Grinding and Battery

[Bazza J]

hi, i have a problem with my car not starting after i used an angle grinder on it to remove the extra exhaust pipe and now it wont start,
it is a carby it that helps,
thanks,

[andyman]

we need a lil more info cause at the moment im thinking wtf?????

[levymetal]

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wrong section buddy, and can you be a bit more specific? ie, won't turn over, won't fire... got spark? is it in gear? tried jump starting it? what kind of car is it?

[rob drag racer]

extra exhaust pipe ? oooooooook using a grinder on a car in normal circumstance will do nothing to its running unless you decide to use it to trim the harness lol and a vr carby i have to see that

[wamboin23]

wont start as in wont fire, or won't start as in won't turn over. what sort of car is it? anything else you did at the same time?

edit: haha it doesnt take long for the responses to pile up ^^^what they all said

[Bazza J]

not the vr, sory i should of said that at the start, its an old 4x4 i have that i use as a runabout, it turns over but doesnt kick over, ive tried checking for spark but i could only find an old plug and i dont know if it works eather, ill try swapping the coil over and trying it

[TVR-190]

did it start prior to the work you did?

[rob drag racer]

just use one of the plugs from the engine to test it

[Reaper]

If that's the extra exhaust pipe you cut then you just chopped the electrics to your starter motor. Break out the grinder and try again.

[vlv8vic]

^^^ doubt it's the same as that nice little donk. Who knows what he might have cut....

[rob drag racer]

another good thing would be the engine type and the type of 4wd

[Bazza J]

its an 89 triton and yes it was working before i did the work, it was at the rear of the exhaust to i wouldnt of cut any electrics

[rob drag racer]

then its unrelated

[levymetal]

at the back? cut the fuel line, and was wondering why that extra exhaust pipe had such a small diameter

not the vr, sory i should of said that at the start, its an old 4x4 i have that i use as a runabout, it turns over but doesnt kick over, ive tried checking for spark but i could only find an old plug and i dont know if it works eather, ill try swapping the coil over and trying it

just take the lead off and hold it near the block... or anything metal for that matter... and see if the spark jumps when you try and start it.

[Bazza J]

i checked for sprk straight off the coil and nothing, but my battery is almost completly flat and as ive searched more other sites have said that a flat battery wont help much eather because the starter will suck all the power possable