Thank you for the help. Turns out he put the cap on 180deg out(reversed). When I removed it to check the rotor, only 30 min. old, felt plastic schrapnell scattered around inside of distributor. Rotor had been grinding inside of cap, 30 min new. When I inspected rotor, metal contact piece had been rotated 90 deg from normal from impacting on post pin contacts. A few drops of crazy glue, a blast from air in a can, one minute with a permanent marker to mark everything and it fired right up!
How in the H#@$ can you even work on the distributor on these things? cut a hole in the firewall?? geez! good luck . here is a link for properly routing the plug wires. common misfire problems can be linked to cross firing . http://autorepair.about.com/cs/faqs/l/bl654h.htm
How in the H#@$ can you even work on the distributor on these things? cut a hole in the firewall?? geez! good luck . here is a link for properly routing the plug wires. common misfire problems can be linked to cross firing . http://autorepair.about.com/cs/faqs/l/bl654h.htm
The easiest way is with the intake off; that's why I always recommend replacing the cap, rotor and wires when changing the plenum pan gasket. There's a copy of the TSB relating to the routing in the Knowledge Base.
Sounds like he had the distributor cap forced on . They will only seat in one location . Glad you got it fixed . Now you can bail him out the next time he screws up .