2.5 months, and still won't start

[jas98]

You have got the leads on the correct way? Can make the car very lumpy.

lol yeh i have done that to me mates VS...sounded bad haha

also have left 2 leads off on me old VN and started straight away and ran.....but sounded weired haha so i checked and was 2 leads off ...opps

 

[mouce]

SHE RUNS!!!

Turns out that when I replaced the CAS and the Balancer, I didn't line them up properly. Didn't even think about it at the time. Turned the engine over by hand to make sure that it wouldn't take off any fins on the back of the balancer...but didn't notice that it was shaving away at the CAS.

Shaved away so much (it was only out of alignment by half a mm) that it had shagged the sensor.

Result: The CAS was dead (even though there was no ecu error code saying so), engine didn't know when to spark...timing was up the ****ter...

Solution: Chuck the old CAS back on (I replaced it even though it wasn't dead), line everything up with feeler gauges and everything else I could through at it. Turned the key and away it goes.

Thanks for all the advice. It was while I was checking the coils that I thought to check the CAS.

Chalk one more fix up to the guys and girls on this board.

 

[DavoVP]

well done dude

 

[voxbox]

haha im reading through this going "i've seen this before, it's the CAS.." glad to hear you got it sorted. Friend of mine had a VL with an intermittent short of the CAS signal wire.. that took many, many weeks to work out..

 

[LowVp]

nvm to late

 

[PaRaDoX]

ummmmm yeah make sure your keyway on the crank is still there, my keyway went missing and my balancer slipped that makes BIG problems

 

[89 vn]

Nice work, its good to be able to drive a car that wont stall repeatedly but you do get good at evasive moves

 

[mouce]

@voxbox: I knew there'd be someone out there who would know exactly what it was. There always is. The good thing about 20 year old cars is that there's never a "new" problem, they've all happened to someone else before.

 

[rob drag racer]

i did the same thing

@voxbox: I knew there'd be someone out there who would know exactly what it was. There always is. The good thing about 20 year old cars is that there's never a "new" problem, they've all happened to someone else before.

dont feel to bad i did the same thing only it took me over 2 months to work it out and 3 cas later i found the issue with much appreciation from the guys here helping me out

it happens unless your a totally precision driven person :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: