Arghhh...
I've done a few heater blowers in 240's before, it's always sort of a time consuming PITA but it's always worked out OK for me before, it usually takes me about 4 hours and at the end of the day I usually wind up with a couple mystery bolts and a car that works fine.

This time was different. On saturday my neighbor George brought up his 86 wagon and a new heater motor. 4 hours later I had it all installed, everything seemed to be fine. Until he had to leave that is. The car wouldn't start. So I checked to see that the fuel pump worked (it did) and that it had spark (it did) ~ I figured it must be flooded so we disabled the fuel pump, it started pretty quick, then I re-enabled the fuel pump and it started right up/ran fine... for about 30 seconds then he stalled it trying to take off while the parking brake was set.

Then it wouldn't start again and the inside of the car had that rather sweet smell of burning semiconductors... and ~ no spark. So there she sits and I have no idea what I could've done. I'm thinking perhaps I missed a ground ~ but I can't think what I possibly got into doing the heater motor that could've affected spark and its odd that it ran for a bit then died. Considering the symptoms, what I did leading up to them... the fact that somethign burned out but I don't know *what* or *why* I am totally mystified. Anyone with similar experiences or ideas? I'd love to get this back on the road today or tomorrow. I do have a couple spare parts cars around, and 84, and an 88 so I likely have replacement parts on hand.