Herbykw
Active Member
Back in January 2000 a friend of mine passed away and left me his car, a 75 Cordoba with a 360, 2 barrel carb, auto trans, completely stock. This car was my daily driver until I joined the military late in 2001. The car sat until about 2005. I was able to get it running again, but not very well. I had friends start it occasionally while I was gone. I wanted to fix it up, make a nice weekend driver out of it. I changed the oil, water, flushed everything, new plugs, wire, dist cap, rotor. It would run but I never really drove it. I put a Weiand intake, and a Holley 4 barrel carb on it. It ran, but would die occasionally. That was about 4 years ago. I am now getting more aggressive with fixing it up. Now I can not get it to run hardly at all.
Long story short
-Car sat, would start, idle and die, then wouldn't start very easily at all
-no spark on 1st cylinder, new plug, wires, dist cap, rotor
-Starter relay went bad, replaced
-started solenoid went bad, new starter and solenoid
-starter relay broke(defective), replaced
-will not turn over, started does not engage. sounds like a click is coming from the starter, like the solenoid engaging, but nothing else. I have checked all the wires many times, and can not find anything
I now have a timing light, and gauge set to check cylinder compression, but can not get the car to start or stay running long enough to check anything.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? I am keeping the car, promised my friend before he passed.
Stock
Now
Long story short
-Car sat, would start, idle and die, then wouldn't start very easily at all
-no spark on 1st cylinder, new plug, wires, dist cap, rotor
-Starter relay went bad, replaced
-started solenoid went bad, new starter and solenoid
-starter relay broke(defective), replaced
-will not turn over, started does not engage. sounds like a click is coming from the starter, like the solenoid engaging, but nothing else. I have checked all the wires many times, and can not find anything
I now have a timing light, and gauge set to check cylinder compression, but can not get the car to start or stay running long enough to check anything.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? I am keeping the car, promised my friend before he passed.
Stock
Now