Hey there,
I have a 1990 ford f150 with a 302. It was running great and I changed the lower intake manifold gasket and now it won't start. It has 36 psi fuel pressure at the rail and good spark. Also checked the timing with a light with spout plug removed while cranking and it was good. Any ideas?

 

Go back over everything you did!! You will most likely find something you left unplugged.maybe a vacuum line

 

Spark, fuel, air = combustion. Something either isn't plugged in or you have a bad component somewhere. You could try and check the actual injectors... I had a camaro once that had good pressure at the rail, but a few of the injectors weren't firing. Worth a shot. I simply just pulled the injector out enough to see if I could see/smell fuel coming out of the injector one by one. Long process, but tracked the issue down.

 

Thanks for the help. I just put in a brand new distributor and nothing. I guess I'll have to tear it back apart idk what else to do

Tanner

 

My son's '90 F-150 with the 302 died while driving one day. When he tried to restart he could hear the fuel pump kick on but no luck. We ended up having it towed. We had to replace the ICM - ignition control module. I don't know if this could be your problem too? Good luck.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but the new distributor I bought came with an ICM, as well as a cap & rotor. Still no luck.

Tanner

 

Did the old dizzy get stabbed back in 180 out of phase accidentally?

Adrianspeeder

 

What's weird is I turned the dizzy 180° (to make sure I didn't just time it to the exhaust stroke) and it backfired/popped but with the timing correct it won't do anything.

Tanner