RE: IML: No -start after oil pump install - what did I miss?

["Robin Giesbrecht" <robings@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm that is strange. I have had a problem when I removed the gear and didi 
not get it back in the correct spot. But if you did not remove the gear then 
you have two positions. Does it backfire or do anything at all? Are you sure 
the distributor is "hot"? Disturbing it maybe you broke a wire or something 
similar. If it is hot it should do something. Hope you primed the pump.

Robin Giesbrecht
1972 Imperial

> From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: IML: No -start after oil pump install - what did I miss?
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:57:29 -0700 (PDT)
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> I installed a new oil pump on the 440 in my '72.
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> There is a rubber O-ring that didn't want to allow the
> pump to enter the block, and I mistook that for
> resistance from the shaft that drives the pump.
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> I have not had a 440 apart in this area, and other
> cars I've worked on in antiquity had the distributor's
> tail driving the oil pump, so naturally I removed the
> distributor to try to clear a path for the oil pump,
> figuring that I'd wiggle the rotor and fit it back
> together once the pump was in.  That didn't help
> because they're not directly connected, and I found
> that I just needed to push harder (force) the pump
> into the block, where it is now comfortably installed.
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> So I go back up top and reinstall the distributor with
> the rotor pointing the (one of two possible) way that
> I "thought" is was when it came out (I looked first).
> The gear driving the dist. was not moved, so rotor
> oientation should not be off unless installed reverse.
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> No fire.  I have spark.
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> I remote start the engine and rotate the distributor
> through its entire range of motion.
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> No Fire.
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> I pull the distributor and spin the rotor 180 degrees,
> crank and run dist. through entire range of
> adjustment.
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> No Fire.
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> I line up the timing mark on 0 degrees, open up the
> dist. and note that after having returned it to the
> first position, it is sort-of close to the #1 spark
> wire.
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> No Fire.
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> The car ran really great besides the oil pump, and all
> it took was me to defunct it.  I think that I'm
> missing one logic step, and can't figure out what it
> is.  I know about where the distributor was and have
> had it there and everywhere else.  I can hear the
> ticking of the electricity when the rotor is rotated
> with the cap off, so I know it's "hot".
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> Ideas?
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> Kenyon Wills
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