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1972 914 crank no start |
Number47 |
Sep 29 2013, 03:25 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 29-September 13 From: Kalamazoo Michigan Member No.: 16,454 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
ok here goes. i have been enlisted to help a friend that has little automotive background get his 72 914 running after a 5+ years in storage. this far i have pumped the gas tank empty and filled with fresh. the fuel pump runs till it builds pressure then stops running. i have spark into the dist. cap but no spark out. cap and rotor were new when parked. now the rotor is nothing like i have ever seen before. i have very limited experience with american muscle and im a diesel mechanic for a living so this whole extra ignition system is borderline voodoo to me. i cant seem to get this sob to run and im bound and determine to do so. so if anyone can tell me what i need to look for that would be great. also i need to know the location of the fuel pump and fuel filter(havent looked yet but figured im on here ill ask anyway). thanks for any help and if more info is needed let me know and ill get it promptly as possible. vin will be here soon
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Dave_Darling |
Sep 29 2013, 06:44 PM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,991 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
If the rotor is unlike any you've ever seen it probably is the rev-limiting rotor. It has a centrifugal weight that gets pulled against a spring to short out the spark when the rotor is spinning fast enough. These usually don't plain outright fail (as opposed to being intermittent) but it is possible. Do you have a "normal" rotor that you can swap in?
Rev-limiting rotor: http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/smart/...%2529%2520%2520 Non-rev-limiting rotor: http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/smart/...%2520%2520%2520 --DD |
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