1983 Mark VI won't start

[87gtVIC]

I am sorry but you said it yourself. You sold it. Its over and his problem now.

[DerekTheGreat]

Yep, at best I'd help him get it off my property. But seeing as I sold it, I'm no longer willing to deal with it.

Solid choice on the K1500. I too, daily drive one. I really like the GMT400 platform. It doesn't get any easier than GM TBI either. The 4x4 system is dead-nuts reliable as well, I've never had any trouble with mine.

[gadget73]

no power to the coil will be completely unrelated to distributor position. Thats a power supply issue. Jumper coil + to the battery and see if it runs. If it does, get the EVTM and trace out where the coil is powered from.

[mercurygm88]

It's at the shop at work. My boss has been having me tinker with it on and off. But after tonight he's done with it too. He's been wanting the car since I bought it and then when I sold it didn't have the money. So I sold it to a friend of his, now he wants it again and since it's just been sitting here he had me seeing if I could get it going so he could try to buy it off the other guy.

[DerekTheGreat]

Unless the boss was my dad or someone else I cared about on that level, nope.

[kishy]

That's a sad direction for this to have gone, for both you and the car. You, because I presume you like the car, and are now dealing with people who clearly have no sense of boundaries, nor respect for your situation. The car, because it was a properly working EEC-III car that probably has a relatively minor problem which it is almost certainly going to be needlessly butchered in the pursuit of just making it move under its own power without solving its actual problem.

Obviously when we're talking about people pretty close to you - boss, boss' friend, etc - there are social pressures which are easily dismissed by those who aren't in your shoes, but which weigh heavily on you.

I (as myself) wouldn't have sold the car at all, but that's easy for me to say because I'm not in your shoes.
I (in your shoes) certainly wouldn't have sold it to someone who had access to lean on me for information or assistance, but that's easy for me to say without knowing how the conversation went regarding them buying it.

They bought a non-running car. You seem to have provided them with a high-level sense of what isn't working, and there's also this thread you could tell them to look at. As far as I'm concerned, you've washed your hands of it and it isn't your problem. But obviously, you have to navigate your relationship with your boss, so only you can know how to move forward. I'm sorry this is the position you've found yourself in.

[mercurygm88]

That's a sad direction for this to have gone, for both you and the car. You, because I presume you like the car, and are now dealing with people who clearly have no sense of boundaries, nor respect for your situation. The car, because it was a properly working EEC-III car that probably has a relatively minor problem which it is almost certainly going to be needlessly butchered in the pursuit of just making it move under its own power without solving its actual problem.

Obviously when we're talking about people pretty close to you - boss, boss' friend, etc - there are social pressures which are easily dismissed by those who aren't in your shoes, but which weigh heavily on you.

I (as myself) wouldn't have sold the car at all, but that's easy for me to say because I'm not in your shoes.
I (in your shoes) certainly wouldn't have sold it to someone who had access to lean on me for information or assistance, but that's easy for me to say without knowing how the conversation went regarding them buying it.

They bought a non-running car. You seem to have provided them with a high-level sense of what isn't working, and there's also this thread you could tell them to look at. As far as I'm concerned, you've washed your hands of it and it isn't your problem. But obviously, you have to navigate your relationship with your boss, so only you can know how to move forward. I'm sorry this is the position you've found yourself in.

The boss, the guy that bought the car, and I have been friends for years. The boss is done with it and wants it out of the shop. I sold it because I exhausted my knowledge on it and just wanted it gone. When I'm done with something I'm done and I don't care about it. The only reason the other guy bought it is because he thought we were going to warranty out the duraspark box and it would run and he was going to get a really good deal. But that wasn't the case.