Distributor -- PLEASE help...(quickly) car is sitting in bad area...

[TurboMeTroy]

Okay, a follow up to my thread the other day...worse situation now... and I need help quickly, like within the hour......


I bought it, drove it home...ran rough...but decent, idled , accelerated...lack luste power , I thought, but moved - whatever...

Idiot before me replaced the coil, starter..etc.....says it started acting up one day and had trouble starting.
valves are noisy.

I started it today (minneapolis - cold as shit)...let it warm up, headed off to get some wheels/tires dismounted...so it was warming while i was loading the car.
Drove to gas station - nightmare begins....

Filled it up...tried to start -- nothing.....wtf. tried and tried and tried....
Walked around outside, popped hood...listened to random gas-getter's suggestions "Does it have gas? need a jump (kindly thanked, but no thanks..at this point)...
I make sure all of the coil wires are tight, give 'em a wiggle..same w/ plug wires...

Oh - and when it was cranking..it would rapid-fire turn over some key turns, and wait a second....and then alternate tries it would sound like it was having a hell of a time turning the engine over (I thought timing, immediately)...

Waiting another 20 min...and the (#%^@$$!!!!!) P.O.S. started...valves clattering away and all....but running...so I reverse out, keepign it running just trying to get home at this point, and pulled out letting the lsd fly...get to a light...try to accelerate...it dies after pumping the gas furiously...in an intersection...i push it back out of the intersection, on a side road near the gas station.

check everything a million times again, wait again...started for a second..then died. and battery is dead. Now the car is parked in front of a mexican-mafia-style housing project, and this shady dude brought out a lawn mower battery and asked if that would help...so I tried to lock it, wouldn't lock. took the battery out and walked home (in the 13" snow, freezing, no school-tale exaggeration)about 1 mile, carrying that f%@$$$$ battery...oh yeah...i busted the coolant overflow line while trying to turn the cap...thinking that might make it start easier????

So here I am...at the computer, pissed, soaking wet, some expensive staggered wheels sitting in the back seat/trunk of the e30...and it wont lock, start - nothing....Now I have to take out the Ti :( just to get e30 somewhere else...home if I can.

Heading to Autozone to get the coolant overflow hose...and battery charged.
Any ...ANYYYY ideas, please and thank you....sorry for all of the typos, run-ons, etc....Im fricking irrate right now ...sad thing is..the body on this car is absolutely beautiful. :(

HELLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!


Soooo now it's sitting there

[TurboMeTroy]

bumper...

[TurboMeTroy]

Blahhhhhhhhhhhhh - Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VacMan]

No buddies with tow vehicles? I'd drag it home before it sits overnight. I'd also buy a booster pack to keep in the trunk at all times in the winter up there. Can't help you with the starting issues, but I can bump it for you.

Tim

[jlevie]

Could be any of a number of things, but my first suspicion would be a problem with the fuel system.

[TurboMeTroy]

UPDATE:
I had the battery charged...and basically dumped the clutch/rode the starter home...It did fire up when I first tried starting it...and only ran and would stay running above 3500 rpms, and died when you put a load on it (let clutch out). And same variation with starting crank speeds...fast one time...slow one time...etc....I think it's a timing issue...I'll check that today..outside, no garage -- Minneapolis High Today : 17.

[akorcovelos]

Could be fuel pump, or fuel filter.

[TurboMeTroy]

Anyone know where/how to hard-wire fuel pump?

[redhatpat]

Could be fuel pump, or fuel filter.

That's what I thought too. But I'd say its more likely to be the pump. A filter would have to be in terrible shape to not run at all.

Since they're cheap, replace the filter(s?) anyway, and with the ignition on short the fuel pump relay to see if the pump runs. If you cant hear it, you can take the fuel line off the FPR to see if gas is coming out.