Also. you could have damaged the the old coil wire to the dist cap when you un plugged it and pluggged it back in. You might be able to replace the coil to dist wire with one of your old spark plug wires to see if that works,
You are not getting spark , so i would think it is in your new cap and rotor or the damaged coil wire.
Or did you buy a new coil wire too ? When you pulled the old coil wire off , you could have broken its internal connection to the contact.
Even if you had a problem with one of the spark plugs or spark plug wires. it would still start on 5 cylinders. So the problem is with the cap ,rotor or coil wire. i would look there.
ive gotten bad rotors before. make sure it didnt shear the dist gear roll pin and still turns. next is wiggle test the connecters at the dist/ignition module. pretty easy on that, scratching my brain
Most likely an no spark. I would recheck all the the components of the ignition system
chk your coil wire. sometimes you have to chk to see if the conectors are in all the way.
Hi I bet you got the firing order wrong sunshine.
I changed my distributor cap, rotor, plugs and wires. Now my truck won't start. The gap on them is .044, what is recommended in my Chilton manual. I transferred the wires from the old distributor cap to the new cap one at a time so I'd make no mistakes. All the wires are going to the correct cylinders. The rotor is in place correctly. It will crank great, but it will not start. I tried spraying starting fluid into the carb and it still did not start. Does that mean it's a spark issue and not fuel? Anything else I may've done wrong? The truck is a 1986 Ford F150, 300 straight 6, 1bbl.
