[T3] Crate was a No start....

[topnotch at nycap.rr.com]

Yes, when it was a no-start I pulled the coil wire and checked the spark that way, it had spark... yea, that doesnt check the rotor but once it cooled for a half hour it started and ran fine.  Took alot of pumping when it finally started but I couldnt pump it enough before it cooled to start.

Keith

---- Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote: 
> On 21 Jul 2012 at 12:40, Keith Park wrote:
> 
> > Now being on a Low Carb diet my whole life Im not accustomed to vapor lock
> > but do you think that might be whats happening?  Im getting the impression
> > that the gas that's shooting from the jets is never making it to the engine,
> 
> If you see gas shooting out of the jets, you don't have vapor lock.
> 
> Anything that comes out the jets has nowhere else to go other than 
> into the combustion chamber.
> 
> > once it starts its fine but is it possible that the 93 octane isn't enough?
> 
> I don't think Octane has ANY effect on starting.
> 
> > Will the lower octanes vapor lock easier than the higher octanes? 
> 
> I don't know for sure, but I seriously doubt it.
> 
> When you say you have spark, does that mean that you checked it while 
> it wouldn't start? The easy way to check for spark is with an 
> inductive timing light: That will ONLY light up if there's current, 
> meaning charge jumped a gap somewhere outboard of the inductive 
> pickup.
> 
> You make a spark indicator from one of the OE inductive pickups that 
> came with the Computer Diagnosis cars and a +/-dual color LED. That 
> should produce just enough of a flicker to be seen and could be left 
> on a SP wire all the time with no ill effects.
> 
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