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I kinda feel like a dope!

Northeast300

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ok I kinda feel like a dope! I degreased my engine bay 4 days ago, I thought I covered everything enough but I must have gotten something wet. It started just fine that night when I finished but 4
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days later....no go. It cranks real good, but will not fire. I tried the usual stuff, checked the distributor for moisture....nothing, I replaced the ballast resistor, the voltage regulator and the ignition coil because those things are exposed and were most likely to have gotten wet. It still won't fire.

As I was swapping those parts out, I noticed that the gel in the EGR Time Delay Module (pictured) was running down the fire wall. I took it off and, yup, the gel melted out of it. It must hacve got so hot that it melted the gel! My question is, would this part prevent it from starting?
 
I don't know the answer to your question, but the potting material they used does get old and breaks down. It happens to ignition boxes as well, no heat required. Happened to an old one on my shelf. If you posted the vehicle you were working on it might help. :D
 
Alternator voltage regulator potentially lowered your battery voltage 12 vdc coupled with the starter pulling a heavy load on your DC supply.
 
I don't know the answer to your question, but the potting material they used does get old and breaks down. It happens to ignition boxes as well, no heat required. Happened to an old one on my shelf. If you posted the vehicle you were working on it might help. :D

It's for my '79 300 with a 360. There is no lean burn system currently, someone before me removed it all and replaced the carb with an edlebrock
 
It shouldn't prevent it from starting the pickup in the distributor or the Ignition module are probably the culprits .
 
Can't help much except don't feel bad unless you are at the end of a rope.....:D

What you're not saying is, are you getting spark to the plugs? There's only 3 things you need for an engine to run....fuel, air and spark. If the car ran right after washing it, chances are high it'll run later on too. Gotta test the components to make sure they are working instead of throwing parts at it. Do you have a service manual for the car? If not, you can most likely find it on line or someone here can post the test procedures.....
 
Can't help much except don't feel bad unless you are at the end of a rope.....:D

What you're not saying is, are you getting spark to the plugs? There's only 3 things you need for an engine to run....fuel, air and spark. If the car ran right after washing it, chances are high it'll run later on too. Gotta test the components to make sure they are working instead of throwing parts at it. Do you have a service manual for the car? If not, you can most likely find it on line or someone here can post the test procedures.....

No spark coming out of the coil, changed it, still nothing. l am going to dig back into it tomorrow!
 
Can't help much except don't feel bad unless you are at the end of a rope.....:D

What you're not saying is, are you getting spark to the plugs? There's only 3 things you need for an engine to run....fuel, air and spark. If the car ran right after washing it, chances are high it'll run later on too. Gotta test the components to make sure they are working instead of throwing parts at it. Do you have a service manual for the car? If not, you can most likely find it on line or someone here can post the test procedures.....
was that six shots...or only five? In all this confusion kinda lost track myself...
 
My EGR module leaked on mine and the car still runs fine.
Is the coil getting power to it? Might have to backtrack the ignition system. Do you have another ignition module you can swap out to try? Kinda the nice thing I have owning 4 of these cars always have “spare parts” to try out before I spend any money.
 
My EGR module leaked on mine and the car still runs fine.
Is the coil getting power to it? Might have to backtrack the ignition system. Do you have another ignition module you can swap out to try? Kinda the nice thing I have owning 4 of these cars always have “spare parts” to try out before I spend any money.

Sorry for not getting back to everyone, I know you were all sitting next to your computers waiting for me to let you know! Turns out it was the ignition module and a wire that I must have blew off with the pressure washer (insert head slap)
 
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