Alright, here's my situation:
I've got a 1987 GT (mods listed below) that has been sitting on my mother's business parking lot for quite awhile now. The battery died a year ago, and up until this point, I've never really had a chance to get out there and jump it/start it. That being said, the car has sat (unmolested) out on my Mom's property for a little over a year, and I figure now (with the weather starting to warm up) is a good time to get out there and get her fired up for the summer.
So, I pulled the battery out of my Taurus, and plugged it into the Mustang. However, once I turned the key, the car began to continually turn over without firing. Now, the fuel pump is working, and I smell fuel in the engine bay after I'm done turning the engine over, so that tells me that I'm at least getting fuel to the rails.
I called my buddy and he told me to pull out one of the plugs, ground it to something metal, turn the engine over, and check for a spark. I did that, and I did not get any spark. So, I tried another plug. Still no spark. I then pulled the wire that runs from the coil to the distributor off of the distributor, put a spark plug in the end of it, and checked for spark from the coil.
Nothing!
Now, on top of all this, I noticed that both spark plugs I pulled out are jet black, and some of them appear to have oil around the threads. So, could it be that I have bad valve seals, and THAT'S why I'm not getting any spark? But then, why am I not getting any spark from the coil either?
Could I potentially be dealing with two problems here, instead of just one? Or could one problem be responsible for the other?
I've got a 1987 GT (mods listed below) that has been sitting on my mother's business parking lot for quite awhile now. The battery died a year ago, and up until this point, I've never really had a chance to get out there and jump it/start it. That being said, the car has sat (unmolested) out on my Mom's property for a little over a year, and I figure now (with the weather starting to warm up) is a good time to get out there and get her fired up for the summer.
So, I pulled the battery out of my Taurus, and plugged it into the Mustang. However, once I turned the key, the car began to continually turn over without firing. Now, the fuel pump is working, and I smell fuel in the engine bay after I'm done turning the engine over, so that tells me that I'm at least getting fuel to the rails.
I called my buddy and he told me to pull out one of the plugs, ground it to something metal, turn the engine over, and check for a spark. I did that, and I did not get any spark. So, I tried another plug. Still no spark. I then pulled the wire that runs from the coil to the distributor off of the distributor, put a spark plug in the end of it, and checked for spark from the coil.
Nothing!
Now, on top of all this, I noticed that both spark plugs I pulled out are jet black, and some of them appear to have oil around the threads. So, could it be that I have bad valve seals, and THAT'S why I'm not getting any spark? But then, why am I not getting any spark from the coil either?
Could I potentially be dealing with two problems here, instead of just one? Or could one problem be responsible for the other?