1985 s15 will not start

If you have spark, and can prime it, but it will not run, than either valves are not moving (cam), or your exhaust is blocked.

But still need to know more than 'will not start'.

What happens when you let it sit for a couple hours then shoot some starting fluid down the carb?

it will try to start with a shoot of eather for about 2 seconds then die the same when i first try to start it

Then the carb isn't providing the necessary fuel mixture needed to start. How's the choke working? Is it shut?

I thought an 85 had TBI? Mine did??

Al

I don't know but you thing the OP would??? He said carb in his original post. Maybe he's mistaken.

Many of the newbies asking questions in these ng's have no business raising the hood on a vehicle let alone attempting to repair them.

Have any of you ever watched someone trying to thread a 1/4-20 nut on a 1/4-20 screw for 15 minutes before giving up? That's the caliber of many of them. I had one guy I know mess about trying to put a new anti- siphon valve in his toilet at home and he bothered me for 2 weeks on the phone before he got it working. Even then it leaked both on the floor and internally.

How do we know whether to help some newbie or not? By what the questions are and how they ask their questions.

I'm waiting for "I accidentally hooked up the battery backwards. What do I have to do now?"

You just can't help some people, no matter how hard you try. The best you can do is to try to enjoy them.

I suppose you came out of the womb with ASE master certs and a host of others as well.

As for Big Al, yours must of been a 2.5lt 4 banger in yours cause thats the only engine that year in an S series that fuel injection. There were four engine options that year, a 1.9 over head cam gasser a 2.2lt 4 banger Isuzu diesel, the 2.5 iron duke with throttle body fuel injection and the 2.8 V-6 with a 2bbl carb for the pickj ups, the Blazer and Jimmie got ether the iron duke w/throttle body, or 2.8 with a carb. 1986 was the year carbs went away on the S-series.

Whitelightning

....and then there are those who are just pompous asses.

I take it you were Never a NEWBEE, Just A KNOW-IT-ALL all your life.

Also if it were Not for the NEWBEE's This Newsgroup would Not Be needed

I guess this Newsgroup Was Created so The Non NEWBEE's Can Show off .

yeah it is a 2.8l with a Rochester Varajet E2SE electronic choke which i think might be the problem

You useless incompetant old man

Have someone crank it while you hold the choke shut. Should start if that's the problem.

Have a look here maybe you'll find something useful.

Mine was a 2.5L with a 700R4 and 4.11 gears.

Al