Car was running fine this morning. I just finished the swap last night. I drove the car around and was starting cool. I came home washed the car and opened the hood. Washed the front of the motor, got water on headers, and front of block. Got some water on the starter too.

I let everything dry, after that car wouldn't start. I unplugged everything and cleaned with electrical cleaner, let dry and plugged back in. Now car cranks but wont turn over/on.

********11/3/09 UPDATE

F**king hate this car. Ok so I redid the wiring for the distributor. I did it the first time with crimp connectors, i took all that off and sodered and put heat shrink on the wiring for the dizzy. I've opened up the dizzy, cleaned it out, cleaned out the spark plug cables. unplugged connections on tranny and front of motor - cleaned them out, let them sit over night and plugged back in today. Nothing stupid car still wont start. I check fuses, I checked and there is ground for negative post cable and another ground on right side of engine. I've unpluged main harness cleaned and plugged back in. I have unpluged ecu, tried another one - Same problem, and then went backt to correct ecu.

what other grounds are there.
Nothing. any good decent priced shops near covina, ca, and how much do you think they will charge to fix.

 

water in the dizzy. does it everytime, just like colt 45.

 

happened 2 times to me...change the cap and rotor

 

just take the cap and rotor off, hairdryer inside dizzy and cap/rotor to dry it out and you should be fine. you shouldnt have to change anything, just dry them out.

 

or. water in the spark plug tubes.

 

I didn't wet the top of motor or the dizzy.

 

check grounds, fuses, inside of cap and plug wires, IM TELLIN YA it HAS to be one of those things

 

ive had cars that ran fine but wouldnt start on really humid, misty rainy days due to a dried out rubber o ring around the cap. Just the spray(moisture) can be enough dampness to effect the dizzy. It take 30 seconds to take off the cap and wires and hit inside with a hairdryer so why don't you give it a shot.

 

I'll try it and let you guys know what happened.

 

I hate this car bump. updated first post.

 

well if u got water on the starter check in the fusebox in the engine i belive its main fuse for the battery its a '80a' change it cuz thats wat happend 2 my friend he blew it up cuz he wash the engine and he change it and it ran good after that i hope its the problem man good luck

 

ok I will check that tomorrow. thanks

 

no problem

 

in case that doesn't work. anyone want to make 200 bucks to fix my car.

 

make sure your ground that is on the tranny still on too.

 

let me know if it work but brfore u put a new one take the ground off the battery andt then check all the wires on ur car then put it and the the fuse ok i hope it works good luck

 

the ground from the negative post cable seems to be going to the clutch cable holder/bracket. is there another ground that goes directly to the tranny