So I bought a Suburban for 200 bucks.
Sitting since 2012.
STATS
-1500 (6 lug)
-5.7L/350 tbi
-700R4 Automatic Transmission
-ODO Reads 60,000 (Guessing 160,000)
Wouldn't start and my gas peddle was stiff so I pulled the seized up throttle body to try and rebuild it. But ended up with 6 snapped off screw heads, 2 corroded injectors. 1 seized throttle body core, and a parchrige in a ****ing pear tree.
So moving on I noticed that I wasn't getting spark at all. so I changed the coil with a good one I had.. nothing.. So i checked to see if my distributor was spinning and is just fine. Bought a new rotor and dis cap and still nothing. Then I pulled the ignition control module off and put it on one of my other suburban 350 tbis and works great (tho looks like s*** but still) I did notice that the positive and negative plug on the back looks like it was melted to nothing so I cleaned it up with brake cleaner and wrapped it up with some high quality 30 year old used electrical tape from under the dash and I think I got it pretty nicely and plugged in the other ignition control module. I'm assuming that's not the problem and if it's not.
Any ideas?? I was thinking maybe the throttle body being uninstalled?? No throttle positioning.. Maybe a fail safe of sorts.. only other thing I can think of is fuel inertia switch or a ground out issue. I'm not gonna order a 300 dollar tbi unit to drop in a 200 dollar beater w/o a heater but I'll pull out my other tbi to test in this if it's a possibility it might be related to the no spark issue.
Sitting since 2012.
STATS
-1500 (6 lug)
-5.7L/350 tbi
-700R4 Automatic Transmission
-ODO Reads 60,000 (Guessing 160,000)
Wouldn't start and my gas peddle was stiff so I pulled the seized up throttle body to try and rebuild it. But ended up with 6 snapped off screw heads, 2 corroded injectors. 1 seized throttle body core, and a parchrige in a ****ing pear tree.
So moving on I noticed that I wasn't getting spark at all. so I changed the coil with a good one I had.. nothing.. So i checked to see if my distributor was spinning and is just fine. Bought a new rotor and dis cap and still nothing. Then I pulled the ignition control module off and put it on one of my other suburban 350 tbis and works great (tho looks like s*** but still) I did notice that the positive and negative plug on the back looks like it was melted to nothing so I cleaned it up with brake cleaner and wrapped it up with some high quality 30 year old used electrical tape from under the dash and I think I got it pretty nicely and plugged in the other ignition control module. I'm assuming that's not the problem and if it's not.
Any ideas?? I was thinking maybe the throttle body being uninstalled?? No throttle positioning.. Maybe a fail safe of sorts.. only other thing I can think of is fuel inertia switch or a ground out issue. I'm not gonna order a 300 dollar tbi unit to drop in a 200 dollar beater w/o a heater but I'll pull out my other tbi to test in this if it's a possibility it might be related to the no spark issue.
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