well my truck has been sitting for the past week with the three snow storms we had, i figured out that i must be missing a peice of trim because snow blows in between the top of hood and wiper blades, so the engine has alot of snow on it, have been trying to start it over the past few days, dont know what is wrong, i put a big block heater on it for a few hours thinking it was so cold it wouldnt start and that didnt work, i also tryed starting fluid spray and that didnt work either, the only thing i can think of is that something is wet and it doesnt like it, i had it running a week and a half ago to do my video and it has been sitting sence, so any ideas, thanks

 

Sounds like you have moisture in your distributor cap. Does it pop or back fire threw the carb or exaust when you try to start it?

 

yeah it did a couple of times when i was trying to start it

 

will I be able to dry it out or will it be shot? i got to do all new ignition stuff anyways but i was hoping to do that in summer

 

Spray some WD-40 in the cap to displace the moisture. Hopefully that does the trick, works for me.

 

you might have too clean out a greeny corrosion off the points in the cap too

 

well i had to do a tune up anyways so i went out and bought new plugs, plug wires, cap, and rotor, i changed the cap, rotor and wires and it started right up, so thanks for that, still got to put plugs in

 

Good!! Thanks for the update.

 

Its usually the simple things that will stump you. I always like to start diagnosing the simple things first.

 

you can always try tapping the starter with a hammer while trying to turn it over