I have an old jeep with a 2.3 Pinto engine, always been an awesome engine I might add, but after sitting all last winter without being started, it wouldn't start this spring...not even try! We have fuel, fire,l and air, but when you turn it over it just spits gas from the carb. My friend tried to set the timing, because he thought it jumped, but he couldn't even find marks on the pulleys, SO he guessed. Now I have a non-running Jeep!!! Can someone please help me!!! If I could at least figure out where the timing marks are I'd be happy!!! Thanks all!!!
Did it run well before it quit? Because it seems to me that it would be quite odd to just "jump" timing sitting there by itself, especially for that short of time. My advice would be to clean out the carb and try to run some fresh gas through it, is it even trying to crank? While your under the hood check your wires (sparkplug, etc.) check your spark if you can get it to crank, mabye adjust your distributor, take of the cap, clean the points, and CHECK YOUR MAGNET!!! If your still running on a Ford Duraspark II system, you will have to take off your rotor and I think your Points?-not sure about that beacuse its been awhile since I've messed with that stuff and the magnet looks like a little plastic box with wires running to it from the outside of the distributor, and just make sure that nothing is broken off down in distributor where it sits, that will make it crank but not start. Also, check the module of the infamous-junk Duraspark II with an Ohms meter. I really don't remember what the correct ohm reading should be, you might want to get a manul, or mabye someone else on this site could help you out with that. If it reads a lower Ohms than it should, than just replace the module, You should be able to find it for around $50 at any auto parts store. That's all I can really tell you, as for the timing mess, the marks should be there, dosn't mean they are, but don't give up, you'll have it running again in no time
It ran perfectly last fall! This was just from sitting! It cranks over fine. Plugs are firing...cap/button look perfect. Old fuel is a possibility, but we were dumping new fuel in carb...
If its spitting through the carb its a timing issue. Could have jumped a tooth by the belt being real worn or? Now that your friend has " guessed" at the timing, you will need to start at square one and make sure that you are at TDC etc etc etc.
pull the rocker cover and make sure that one of the valves isn't stuck open. (rust from sitting). as far as the marks on the pulleys go, ???