Burke

I have not driven my car for more than 50 miles in the past month, so we get a nice day and I decide to take it for a ride before i sell it. Warm it up for like ten minutes, go for a short ride, and I am going down a hill in like 2nd or 3rd and it backfires. So i take it out of gear and it stalls. and now it wont start. It feels like it wants to turn over, but after wont. Sometimes after cranking it, it will backfire with a nice loud pop.
I checked the battery, its fine. I thought it might be the fuel relay, but i can hear the fuel pump priming.
what's next distributor, cap and rotor. I am lost. please help. whats worse is that is that it will be sold in a couple days, and it wont go anywhere
I wound it out pretty good when it was running and no break up or anything.
thanks for the help
later
Burke
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Perfectionist

One quick free thing to check would be to make sure the rotor screw didn't fall out or come loose.

Burke

The rotor exploded. only small bits left now. Perhaps the screw came loose and then boom. Guess I can be glad that it happened to me now, then on the new owners ride home Time to go get a new distributor

Thanks for the help all