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Hello there Gord from someone who has actually been to Red Deer (worked at Joffre, Nova Chemicals on many trips from the states)
Hope your luck improves. I didn't see any confirmation in your posts that you are actually getting good spark. I'm assuming that at least the following is true:
1) timing belt's not broken
2) cap and rotor are fairly clean, no black carbon shadows inside and clean copper contacts
3) the fuel system is getting the pulses from the ignition system that tell it to turn on the pumps once it starts cranking
4) there is actually some gas in the car
OK that leaves us with a few possiiblities. Pull the coil wire from the dist cap, tuck it in by the left hood hinge, not grounded out, and crank. Dont hold the end of the wire! Should get strong bluish spark there. If not, we have other problems, like the connector under the coil- a 2 wire (blue, red/white) plug that provides +12V to the coil, I've had that plug act up. Unplug, securely reconnect, clean up contacts if corroded. That was also on a no-start 87, so who knows?
Plug the coil wire back in, and check a couple spark plugs- remove and see if they're black or clean. New plugs are Bosch WR7DC if you need em. At least try cleaning them off if they're dirty and the parts store is closed....
If ignition is all ok lets move to fuel. First of all try to hear the fuel pumps. They should run as the engine is cranked for 5 secs or more. Can be hard to hear over a cranking engine so reach under and put your hand on the main one under the left rear seat. Should feel it buzz. If not, make a little jumper wire and jump fuse 4 to fuse 6 in the fuseblock. Probably get a healthy spark because it will start the fuel pumps. Any difference/ any luck?
Ok move on to the fuel pressure regulator on the intake manifold. That's the cylinder at the front end of the fuel rail for the injectors. Remove the hose from the bottom of it- that's the return to tank. Put a coffee can or something under to catch any fuel. Crank. After 10 secs or so, there should be fuel coming out the return. If not, no fuel pressure. You can remove the inlet line at the back end of the fuel rail to verify this. If you can, put some of that gas into the throttle, or use some starting fluid or even WD40 in there- see if the engine will fire if given some fuel that way. That would confirm that everything else is good except fuel supply.
Now,I would have sworn to you a year ago that any fuel pump that RUNS has to PUMP. Not so. Another 87 I worked on had an autozone-replacement-junk pump quit this summer on my neighbors 87. Installed a new one for her (and filter) all correct Bosch, on the side of the road- car fired instantly. It may come to that- hope this helps- good luck, eh?
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: '87 244DL/M47- 234K, '82 245T/M46-182K, '89 244DL/AW70- 212K Not too distant past: 86 244DL 215K, 87 244DL 239K, 88 744GLE 233K, 88 244GL 147K, 91 244 183K
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