Terminal broke off dissy cap , changed dissy cap but stiil wont start help thanks

If spark and fuel ok, the only other thing needed will be compression. Make sure the timing belt has not broken or jumped

Hi Garry, from my experience it is very hard to put a dissy cap on backwards because of the location lugs, you simply can't get the clips to hold the cap on, they may have the wires on back to front. If your engine is running, that makes it easier, remove your spark plugs and distributor cap, turn engine over to point of no1 firing, this will have a small line on distributor housing that will line up with rotor button. then you check for a timing mark on the front pulley (the mark on some models is through the rear of the block with a mark on the fly wheel) make a note of the timing position, remove the dissy, turn it 1 full turn, that means turn your motor until the mark comes back to where it was then replace the dissy making sure the marks are in the same place, make sure you change the leads to where they belong you should run. If you have a timing light, remove the vacuum line from the dissy, with engine at low idle timing light on #1 set timing on the marks found earlier. Merry Christmas

Quick easy check, is to remove No 1 spark plug, rotate engine by hand to bring No1 piston to T.D.C, (with valves rocking ) remove dissy cap and check position of rotor, the segment of the dissy cap that the rotor is pointing at will be No 1 Cheers

can you manually turn the engine with a spanner if so turn it and the disy should drop back in or but the dissy in its hole and turn the dissy cap that should work as well

alot of the 4 cyl vehicles spark plug leads are joined to distributor cap and come as complete assembly leads and cap.the new leads have cylinder numers on them and/or on dissy cap.
twist and pull to remove leads out of haed(spark plugs),remove 3 screws from dissy cap and replace.

Is petrol cap blocked

change the air idle valve on inlet manifold.

If I am right, the firing order is,1-3-4-2. With the dissy cap removed, have someone turn the engine over so you can see which way the rotor arm goes. Set the engine to TDC and the rotor arm should point to the No1 cylinder at the start of the firing order. If it rotor points away from the No 1 cylinder then slacken the dissy housing and move the diddy until the rotor ppoints to the No1 cylinder. Now pHT lead from the No1 spark plug to the No 1 possition on the dissy cap. The next lead goes on the next available possition on the dissy cap in the way of the rotation of the rotor then to the No3 spark plug carry on the same with 2 and 4 and that should solve your problem unless you have a different firing order.

To check the Coil, pull the HT lead that comes from the coil to the dissy cap out of the dissy cap and hold close to the engine and with the ignition switch turned on earth the negative side of the coil. If there is no spark then the coil is the likely problem. If there is spark then check that the ignitor is recieving the signal from the pick-up (use an LED tester at the ignitor plug) the tester should blink as you crank the engine over. If the tester doesn't blink then check the output of the pick-up at the plug on the side of the dissy, if still no blink then check the pick-up clearance. If it blinks at the dissy and not at the ignitor the check the wires/plugs for breaks. If it blinks at the ignitor and there is still no spark then the ignitor is the likely fault.