after replacing the disty with a reman. one, the car started up sputtering, as if it was misfiring, and then would die. i was able to start it up another 4-5 times but now, it just keeps cranking.

im thinking it could be the disty again.
i damaged my previous cap+rotor because the rotor screw came lose and was lodge between the rotor and the inner disty cover. could that have caused my timing to have skipped a tooth?

 

My old DA did the same thing............never could figure it out

 

bump for advice

 

car cranks and starts up. turns out, my timing is advanced but was irrelative to ...not having enough gas in the tank

 

so what was the problem

 

my car did that before, and the replacement was bad, tried a friends and changed the plugs and it crunk right up. then tried the replacement and the original, and no crank.

 

did you get the firing order correcT?