no164ford
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Will Not Start ?????????????????
I have a 1989 thunderbird sc. When I parked it last fall it ran great with no problems, then through out the winter I would start it just to let it run, and I kept having problems starting it. Then after it started, it would idle real bad and miss and rev crappy. Once it warmed up it ran fine. This seemed to get worse each time I started it, and after you get it warmed up it restarts just fine. Plenty of power and will smoke the tires off. Last time I got it running about two weeks ago I had a hard time starting it and after it was running for a little while it was still running bad. I noticed the ground wire to the core support was broke, so I got a pice of wire and put it across to ground and the car ran great so I replaced the wire. I think I ran it out of gas that day, so tonight I went out to start it, and put gas in it. It will not start at all now. After cranking for a while, it will atempt to start, and twice it did start but only seemed to be running on two to three cylinders. I even hit it with starting fluid, did not seem to make a difference. I drained the fuel filter, does have fuel at the fuel rail. Also checked to see and it does have spark. The plugs and wires are new, just put them on last summer, any idea what this could be, please help me.
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Thanks Paul.
I have a 1989 thunderbird sc. When I parked it last fall it ran great with no problems, then through out the winter I would start it just to let it run, and I kept having problems starting it. Then after it started, it would idle real bad and miss and rev crappy. Once it warmed up it ran fine. This seemed to get worse each time I started it, and after you get it warmed up it restarts just fine. Plenty of power and will smoke the tires off. Last time I got it running about two weeks ago I had a hard time starting it and after it was running for a little while it was still running bad. I noticed the ground wire to the core support was broke, so I got a pice of wire and put it across to ground and the car ran great so I replaced the wire. I think I ran it out of gas that day, so tonight I went out to start it, and put gas in it. It will not start at all now. After cranking for a while, it will atempt to start, and twice it did start but only seemed to be running on two to three cylinders. I even hit it with starting fluid, did not seem to make a difference. I drained the fuel filter, does have fuel at the fuel rail. Also checked to see and it does have spark. The plugs and wires are new, just put them on last summer, any idea what this could be, please help me.
READ BELOW I HAVE ADDED TO THIS!
Thanks Paul.
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