okay, still wasn't able to find my camera, but i did manage to find an iflip...

so bear with me... and don't mind my lisp. ha. effing jolly rancher.....

so here goes nothing

vid 1 and vid 2 are just of the mysterious plug i can't find a mate to.





vid 3 is below the intake and above the starter... its the one that looks like its going up and should be going down, it used to go to the rail that went from the intake down to the bottom of the firewall or crossmember i believe, not sure. but its grounded still, none the less.


vid 4 is over by the ac and bottom of the radiator


and lastly vid 5 is just of the distributor. which i've checked and checked, 1 plug.


lets get this figured out....

it looks like someone really hacked up that engine harness, not gunna lie

mysterious plug went to the o2 sensor on the header.... somehow i had the 2 o2 sensors mixed up and had the one prong plug o2 sensor on the manifold instead of on the down pipe.... switched them and it mates up fine..... still no spark though

ok that center wire on the dixy cao goes to your coil. i zoomed on the ignitor. im almost betting its ecu, or the ignitor

Glad that the mystery plug was taken care of. Get me a better pic of the other one (down by the radiator) and I can see if I cant mate that up to anything else. And as far as your ignitior goes, just use that PDF I sent to pull some readings. But I'm with stephen on this, one of the two.

okay well i couldn't find my meter today so i wasn't able to test it.... but i still don't see how the igniter could of went bad if it worked fine 3 months ago, and only sat outside for 2 months in the summer..... then was rolled into our garage.... it seems to me it should still work fine....


talked to spider some more, thought it might be because of alot of moisture in the distributor maybe?

and for the ecu, i don't think it could of gotten f-ed up as to the fact i didn't even undo the harness, just pulled it all neeatly out of the way and plugged everything back in as it should be , no bare wires ever touched anything they shouldn't have or went somewhere they weren't supposed to as the only things i messed with were plugs, never wires by themselves.......


so hoping someone can shine some light on this or maybe tell me a way to do another test to find if its the distributor or not .......... getting very disheartened

so did you swap the 94 head out for the 97 head?
that could be your problem if you didn't.

i doubt thts the issue. the oilpump, dizzy, misc sensors are all really thats needed to run.

exactly.... so i'm thinking i might take apart the dizzy to see if its not damp or filled with moisture, check the coil while i'm at it...

if that doesn't help with anything then next step is igniter, and if that doesn't fix it then
ecu i suppose?

lets hope i can get lucky

Well i've decided that i'm going to tough it out...

i'm hauling the car over to our mechanics shop who is a pretty good friend of ours,
he said he'll give me a pretty good deal and get it running......

so within the next 3 or 4 days it should be up and running, i'm dropping it off today at 1pm.

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hopefully i can finally join the "running" celica club hahah

fail.

Ok, Im no master tech. here but if I was to guess I would say that the OBD I and OBD II is where the differences in the vacuum lines are. I know my 94 GT and 96 GT have alot of minor differences when it comes to the hose routing around and through the intake manifold.

Did they ever get this thing running?