Yeah, I plan on troubleshooting the fuel later, as I've had fuel in the bowl more recently than I've had spark.
Nadeem, I took your advice and just took a set of jumper cables and attached the two leads to random sections of the block and...
I've tried it before, but not recently. I'll give it a try tonight.
I assumed it was mostly due to evaporation. It's parked in the sun and the air cleaner assembly is disconnected. I'm going to change out the fuel filters (yeah PO put a second...
New plugs, a little oily on the electrodes, but they got replaced. New NGK wires, made sure they "popped" into place. New rotor, scraped the main terminal anyway. No change. Did blow in some starting fluid into cylinder 5 just to see if I could...
Yes, at least 2 of them have the aluminum contacts, so I'll give them a little scrape/file and see if I can get some good fresh metal.
Pulled the # 6 and #5 wires, one was nice and corroded at the plug end. So, I think I'm going to go ahead and...
Made a jumper wire and tried starting a few times, no fire up. I'm going to leave it for now though becuase at least I know it's a undamaged straight wire!
All,
I've finally reached my wit's end on not having spark on my 1974 FJ40. Long story short, ran fine and parked it for a 6 month work assignment and came back to it not wanting to start. I've played around with it here and there a few...