Olds 307 Engine Tune up gone wrong...

[88SuperSport]

Guys as stated I checked the order 3 times before I even started this topic. I checked everything obvious before I looked for further help

 

[FE3X CLONE]

any backfiring?

check the firing order. on the cap and the motor.

start simple.

I agree. If this problem surfaced RIGHT AFTER you did the tune up, then it's likely due to something you did when replacing the parts.
Check and recheck everything EVEN if you think you did it right.

There's been times when I've had issues like this after replacing something and refused to recheck what I previously did but I KNEW I did it right! Then I'd proceed to check just about everything else and it turns out that the part that I had just put on (whatever it was) was installed wrong.

I also had a time when I replaced all of the spark plugs and wires on my engine. Ran like crap afterwards and could not figure it out. I went over the wires and firing order for days and days and knew it was correct. I took it to a mechanic expecting something really major to be wrong. He called me an hour later saying I could pick up the car and that I just owed him a box of donuts. Turns out I knocked a vacuum line loose somehow from the drivers side vacuum ball.

Moral of the story, check and recheck everything you've done to that car. If you still can't find anything wrong, then I'd try getting a second set of eye's to look it over. If that still doesn't solve it, then and only then would I begin looking at things that you didn't touch and may have just happened by coiscendence.

 

[RITTER]

It sounds like your only other option is to replace all the old parts back on the motor and see if it fires :idea:

 

[88SuperSport]

It sounds like your only other option is to replace all the old parts back on the motor and see if it fires :idea:

Yea that's what I'm gonna do. I bought a clear tube wanna just make sure its getting gas at the carb and if it is that's exactly what I'm gonna do. Might have to wait til next weekend, I'm just waiting out the rain and I gotta work on the woman's car first. This tune up was only supposed to be a little hobby thing yesterday and thought I'd give the car a little treat haha. Man what a mistake. But ill keep you guys updated with any updates and hopefully progress

 

[kyhunter89]

are the plugs you put in it long reach? did you compare plugs when you swapped?

have you tried priming the carb, pour a little gas in it?

 

[88SuperSport]

Plugs looked a little different but I think the ones in it were original. They arele just A.C. plugs not ac delco, I even went to anothe Murrays and thats what the guy said too, he double checked on his system that these were the correct replacement.

Yesterday I confirmed gas is getting up to the carb so its not a fuel issue, sprayed a couple shots of starting fluid in the carb which had no effect. I wont be able to look at it again til probably Friday, real busy week. But Im gonna swap all the old stuff in, see if it starts and go from there

 

[86Olds442]

Swap one part back in at a time and see. Start with the coil.

 

[kyhunter89]

the plugs you put in it are long reach. autozone gave me these last weeek. They were wrong for my car, im hoping they are right and thats not your problem.

 

[CAPERKEV]

HAVE YOU CHECKED TO MAKE SURE THE PLUG FOR THE DIST. IS ACTUALLY IN? AND THE WIRE FOR BATT IS PLUGGED IN???????