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Ok. well eerything that is connected to the coil is tight and in place.

Tony

Can you hear the fuel pump running before you try to crank it? Is the check engine light off while you crank?

Jim Johnson just made a nice post to the mailing list about a problem he was having, those were a couple symptoms he was describing.

Here's the message. Give that a read and see if it helps out: http://www.coldair.org/archives/0112/msg00010.html

Mine was just the opposite. Everything would power up, but the car wouldn't crank. I thought I tested everything, so tonite I bought a circuit breaker so I could see if I could find the break in the wire (I had a wire melt). I put the breaker in where the 20A igntion fuse is in the power block. I got in, unwired all the wires I had used to hotwire the car, turned the key and it started. I didn't know if I should be happy or pissed. It took me four days of tinkering with it, and it was a bad fuse, that I thought I had tested.

On the bright side, I got the dashboard dyed black while I was at it.

Anyway, to make a long story short, CHECK EVERY FUSE!

Found out what the problem was. It was the fuel pump. I got it back but the place i took it didnt look to find out that the gas gauge wasnt reading, so i took it back again this morning and they are fixing the wires.

Tony

That happened to me with my previous junker: bad heater blower fuse, which I swore I had checked.