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My Rangie won't start

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mudminx:
ARRRRRG!  Can someone help, I have been tinkering and now the Rangie doesn't work. :(

I started off this morning by putting on the new starter, pain in the arse job, but it is done.  To see if I had connected it up ok I started her up and she ran fine.  I let her warm up whilst I cleaned the tools, and I stopped and started her about a dozen or so time to make sure everything was ok.  Job done I retired triumphantly for a cup of tea and discovered the posty had been :grin:.  On the doorstep was my new lucas dizzy cap and rotor arm.  Feeling buoyant I decided to fit that as well.  I removed the orignal dizzy cap and rotor, put the new ones on, connected the HT leads IAW the workshop manual and found that the [!Expletive Deleted!] wouldn't start.  I checked the HT leads, the coil leads etc were connected correctly and still nothing.  I then put the old dizzy cap and rotor on, connected it correctly again and found, interestingly enough, that it still won't start.  The coil fires a strong blue spark and I am positive that I have the HT leads in the correct order.

Any Ideas?

ben_haynes:
check the rotor arm spins the way the Manual says as i had this on a vehicle the rotor arm went the oposite way to the book  :shock:

and double check you have the firing order correct

mudminx:
Cheers for that......

eeerm.....I might have connected the leads up in the wrong order!!!

 I followed the Range Rover workshop manual to the letter and couldn't figure why it wasn't firing.  Then I checked the infamous Haynes manual and it had the same order but moved around one place.  Fired first time!

Although the hand brake has now siezed on...!   :doh:

ben_haynes:

--- Quote from: mudminx on March 01, 2008, 18:07:03 ---Although the hand brake has now siezed on...!   :doh:
--- End quote ---

get under the vehicle and Give the Drum a few good Hard belts with a hammer  :roll:

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