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Okay, here's the deal. As some of you may know I have been in the process of converting a 1982 245 diesel car to a gas car. It now has a 1983 B23 eng. and a M46 trans. I'm at the point where I'm ready to crank the engine over and bring this thing to life. So today I try starting it and the starter cranks fine with plenty of juice from the battery. No start. I pull the #1 spark plug and ground it on the chassis to see if I have spark and there is none. Note: I installed an MSD blaster 3 coil and a set of magnecor plug wires in this car. After checking all of my connections I think it's correct(ie: coil wire is connected at both ends and spark plug wires all look good too. When I installed the coil I made sure to install the wires the same way that they are installed on my running 1983 245). This engine came from a dead donor car that I never heard run so I don't know the condition of the distributor, fuel pumps, etc.(There's also no informatiom in the Bentley as to how to check the impulse sender in this distributor). I did replace the engine wiring harness with a used upgraded one as well as a used ignition harness(the donor car had been a victim of an engine fire assumably from a disintegrating wiring harness). In addition to the no spark problem I am also not getting any fuel to the engine. I had just finished putting 5 gallons of fuel in it from a gas can. After cranking it for a minute or so and getting no start, I removed the fuel line from the fuel pressure regulator and had no fuel there. I had someone crank the engine as I tried to listen for the fuel pump but I couldn't hear a thing. Another interesting thing that I noticed was that when I turn the key on to the run position on the ignition switch, the only dash light I'm getting is the oil pressure idiot light (No Lamda Sond). When I installed the wiring harnesses I used my running car as a blueprint as to what wire went where. I don't know where to begin. The Bentley manual gives resistance values for the coil but I don't know if there supposed to be the same for this aftermarket coil as the stock(Bosch)one. I don't know where to begin on this thing. I don't mean to overload y'all with all of this and I'm sorry for the long post but I thought I'd get it all out at once. And as always, any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
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