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If all you did was replace the distributor cap and now it won't start. Either the cap is the wrong one, or it is faulty, take it back to where you bought it and have it replaced for another one. Make sure it is the correct one for your model.
When you took the cap off, did you remove the rotor button also? If so did you remember to put it back, don't laugh it is a common mistake.
Something else to check is that all the plug wires are snug in the distributor cap. Test this by pushing down on the actual wires and not the caps. Some times they don't go in far enough.
A couple of other things to check in the cap is for 'tracking/arcing' you will see this by taking the cap off and looking inside it and if it is tracking you will see a what looks like a hairline crack, this is from the electrical charge arcing out.
Check the little carbon rod that sits in the top of the distributor cap make sure it springs in and out and isn't broken.
Hi:) There is a brown wire with a singal black connector in the wiring harness under the brake booster that goes up behind the engine on the drivers side to the distributor area.You disconnect this wire to disengage the computer timing auto adjustment. Set the timing to 0.deg and turn off engine before reconnecting brown wire. Computer will automaticly set the timing.
first try running a high grade fuel injector cleaner in the truck, then pull out each spark plug and examine its condition if you find a black one replace the plug first if problem persists replace all plug wires and plugs the the distributor cap and rotor. Sometimes a MAF sensor can cause this problem
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