Pulled spark plug wire, now no start

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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 02:55 PM
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Car was running fine, no CELS, being the smart guy I am I decided to pull the plug wires. Pulled wire 4, nice blue sparks engine still ran decent, replaced it, pulled plug 3, engine died. I put the wire back in and cranked her up and now she won't start. Have not yet checked for fuel/spark, checked ecu and main fuse, also the alternator fuse.
Has anyone else ran into this problem? Is there another possible fuse that it could be if i blew one? Meanwhile I'll pray to the dizzy god that I did not jack up the ignition coil.
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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 04:07 PM
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inside the wire the end could have come off and stuck to the plug or the wire itself inside could have broken
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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 04:58 PM
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Wires in good condition plugs too.
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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 05:17 PM
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change ur wires they are bad about comin apart
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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 06:24 PM
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any other ideas
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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 08:52 PM
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Decided to go out in the middle of the night and crank it, got it to start it bogged some, im guessing i flooded it, cause it smelt like gas bad.
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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 09:07 PM
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pretty hard to flood an automatic. as vacum is how the ecu determines how much fuel to put in. (i know its posible yes i have done it... with large injectors and holding the ignition to long).

but if you think you have. pull the plugs out for 5 mins... then put them back in and try again.

do you have a multi meter? check the wires. see if they are alright. if you pull d 1 wire... and had 3 in and the motor shut off... im not sure about that
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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 09:37 PM
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i dont get it, why were you pulling the plug wires off while the car was running, that doent make sense to me, unless im missing something
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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 10:47 PM
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The car starts now and its not an automatic! And I pulled wires cause im cool like to create problems for myself.
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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 02:43 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CLE &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The car starts now and its not an automatic! And I pulled wires cause im cool like to create problems for myself.</TD></TR></TABLE>

then might as well solve them yourself
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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 10:36 AM
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pull the wires while its on to check if you are sparking all four cylenders. thats the reason ive done it in the past
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Old Aug 1, 2006 | 08:23 PM
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And yes thats the reason, I was just being a smart ***.
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