No Sparks After A Day Of Hope!

[Bigtimmy 1]

As you may or may not know I am replacing the engine in my 205 with a freshly rebuilt unit which has been run and was running fine when it was removed carefully from the donor vehicle.

 

My car was running fine with no problems before I carefully removed the engine.

 

From this I can assume that all the loom and wiring and ecu are ok.

 

Having VERY CAREFULLY installed the new engine today making everything neat, tidy and shiny and having connected all the loom up in the correct places and connecting a battery it turns out that I have no spark.

 

I looked and prodded for around an hour before deciding that the best thing to do was to step away from the car before launching all my toys out of the pram.

 

All the leads are connected correctly, they are nearly new, the dizzy looks good so I'm a little bit stumped as to why it won't start.

 

I'm going to take another look in the morning but if anyone can suggest things to check this evening I can try them tomorrow.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Anthony 1,003]

What engine is this - a standard 8v GTi lump?

[Bigtimmy 1]

What engine is this - a standard 8v GTi lump?

 

Yes indeed it is a boggo 1.9 GTI lump D6B with nothing special added or taken away, still on standard injection.

[daveo 0]

i had this problem with mine mate, turned out that we missed the small cable that conects to the distrubutor cap. i know you said everything is back together, we also though this and took us 2 evenings to find! just a thought mate

[Bigtimmy 1]

Problem solved!!

 

After substituting various parts we found that the alarm loom needed an earth before allowing anything to produce sparks!!

 

It was rather an annoying couple of hours trying to find the fault, but what is more annoying is the fact that the alarm loom will have to stay in the car as I'm not really into trying to get it out!

 

Anyhow all is well!

[BusEngineer 7]

Thats good news

 

Alarms and immobilisers are a pig!!