Ken G's Journal

Well I had the car running on September 4th with the new starter and using the rewired set up from the earlier MGB's (wire coming from the fuse box and a 3 ohm coil) While I was waiting for the diode to put the wiring back to the original design I cleaned up the dash wiring replaced the turn and brake lights with LED's along with the flashers.

Nothing that I thought was too critical to the operation of the car.

When the diode arrived I connected it to the starter, replaced the original wires and had the expectation that it would start right up. Well nope.
Car was turning over but not firing, OK fuel pump wasn't pumping so I quickly realized it was the roll over switch, easy to resolve, but did it Nope.

No spark at the plug, hmm weird, power to the coil, Ahh the negative wire to the distributor was lose, fixed that now has spark. Still nope.

I changed the wiring back to use the set up I had before the diode arrived (with the 3 ohm coil) to remove other variables that had changed since it ran last.

Checked static timing, made sure the #1 cylinder was up, rotor at 1 o'clock, cables at 1,3,4,2 clockwise. Of how did they get flipped. changed the wires to counter clockwise, cleaned the plugs, checked gap. Using my inline spark thingee I see spark at the plugs. got a little bit of a back fire but nothing much.

Today I went out to try to start it, and now the new high torque starter is clicking but not engaging. Power to lights and hazards.
I put the battery on the charger and going to let it change all day.

The worsee thing about this is that not that long ago it was running and I'm doing the same steps with no luck, frustrating