On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:10:12 GMT, Nick Hull
wrote:

In article ,
"Newshound" wrote:

Or a gas torch (not oxy acetylene!) if you are away from power.



Have tried starting fluid, fresh gasoline, propane, and carb cleaner
(usually works best!). No firing on any.
Greetings Nick,
I had a similar problem with a Mazda GLC years ago. Even though there
was plenty of spark in air the thing wouldn't run. When the timing was
severly retarded the car would run. Since the resistance between the
sparkplug electrodes rises as the density of the ar/fuel mixture rises
it finally occurred to me to look for a short to ground that happened
only when the timing was correct. It turned out to be a bad rotor. It
was shorting to ground through the distributer shaft. Replacing the
rotor fixed the problem. When a timing light was used while the timing
was retarded it would flash. As the distributer was turned the timing
light would cease firing and the car would die. So look at the system
from the coil to the plug.
Cheers,
Eric r Snow