Thread: RRC No start

You really need to be a little more precise with the ignition timing. With no.1 spark plug removed, turn the engine so that it is somewhere near TDC. Using a short length of heater hose, blow into no.1 cylinder. If the valves are closed you won't be able to blow air in and you're on the timing stroke. If air whistles into the cylinder and leaves by an open valve you're 1 turn out. Rotate the engine 1 turn so that you're on the firing stroke. Feel for TDC with a small screw driver down the plug hole and compare the timing marks on the front pulley. TDC should be very close to the one on the pulley.

Now rotate the engine a fair ways anticlockwise then return clockwise to around 10 degrees BTDC. Next remove the distributor cap and see if the rotor button is pointing at no.1 ignition lead. Look down between the rotor button and the plastic cover and adjust the position of the distributor to line up the star rotor tooth and the pickup tooth. This will be much closer than any random guess. Be very careful when removing the rotor button as it's easy to break the little retainer clip that lives under the button.

Fuel pressure can be tested at the Schrader valve on the fuel rail. Injector function can be determined by a LED test light probed into one of the injector plugs. Injection only happens when the ignition is fully working as the RPM signal is a wire on the negative side of the ignition coil.