Just did a tuneup, with new plugs, wires, cap. Plugs are gapped properly at .045.
Engine turns but refuses to start. The only concern I had was that there were two coil-to-distributor wires in the kit that I ordered, am I forgetting to connect something? Not sure what it is or I has the dumb...

Engine? Did you double check the firing order

Well, I stupidly removed the old wires before remembering to label which went to which, but I found this diagram and connected the new ones using it for reference:

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...020511-2-018190.html

Is this diagram correct?

Yes and no, can you post pictures of where your distributor is facing. You may have got confused best way to do this is make sure your #1 is right and go from there. The position of your number one may be different (visually) from what is shown based off of how the distributor is turned when timing was set

quote Originally posted by FieroCat: Well, I stupidly removed the old wires before remembering to label which went to which, but I found this diagram and connected the new ones using it for reference: https://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...020511-2-018190.html Is this diagram correct?

Keep in mind that #1 on the distributor cap can theoretically be any of the terminals. That diagram is just a suggestion (that I do follow). You'll have to determine where your rotor is pointed when #1 cylinder is at TDC (of the compression stroke).

I just fixed it. I realized the Haynes manual had the correct configuration and it started right up. My number one terminal on the cap is closest to the engine.

Today's Lesson: Change plug wires one at a time.

quote Originally posted by FieroCat: My number one terminal on the cap is closest to the engine.

Glad that makes sense to you.

Closest to the passenger side?

quote Originally posted by FieroCat: Closest to the passenger side?

The bolt indicated with the arrow is pretty close to where I line up the #1 terminal (and rotor) with TDC before I time the engine.

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quote Originally posted by Formula88: Today's Lesson: Change plug wires one at a time.

Great advice I ALWAYS follow with no exception. I also label any wires I disconnect with masking tape and a pen. A great invention for someone to make is a kit that has permanent snap on (like loom) labels for everything under a hood. I had them for spark plug wires on several cars I bought at Jegs. Ive bought wire kits for car restorations that had every wire permanently labeled with what it went to and wondered why no one makes them separately.

quote Originally posted by Formula88: Today's Lesson: Change plug wires one at a time.

A rule I have followed religiously for the last 40+ years that has never failed me. I did have a friend call me one morning at 7 AM, 7 AM I was working the night shift the night before and did some overtime so I hadn't gotten home until 4 AM he called and asked me what the firing order was on his car, WTF. I told him it was on the intake manifold, he said he couldn't find it, so I looked it up read it to him and then went back to bed. he called me again a few hours later saying it still wouldn't start, I described the cap shape and hold down screws in relation to number 1 plug and again gave him the firing order. Go by the cap and the screws relationship to number 1 and you should never be wrong, unless the manual is wrong. I have only run into that once, in a Haynes manual on an Astro van. but it does happen, I had to look the firing order up online to realize it was wrong in the manual.

so in all the time I have ever changed plugs, unless it was a complete engine rebuild I have only messed up that one time, because I only change one plug at a time.

quote Originally posted by rogergarrison: Great advice I ALWAYS follow with no exception. I also label any wires I disconnect with masking tape and a pen. A great invention for someone to make is a kit that has permanent snap on (like loom) labels for everything under a hood. I had them for spark plug wires on several cars I bought at Jegs. Ive bought wire kits for car restorations that had every wire permanently labeled with what it went to and wondered why no one makes them separately.

Factory wire sets used to have them on them as well Roger, remember them, I know you do, was for ease of assembly at the factory. If I remember right it was printed right on the wirers and the cap.

Steve

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