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Old Jul 28, 2009 | 06:28 AM
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Ok heres a little run down of my problem. About 10 months i got in a wreck in my car that wrecked the passenger fender, cracked the CF hood, and pushed in the passenger side of the radiator support. Mechanically everything was fine besides a tiny leak in the radiator. I finally just got around to getting all the parts to fix the car( fender, hood, radiator). So to get started I pulled the car into the garage to get started on the car and it was running like a champ. Also while it was sitting i would fire the car up every other week for about 5 minutes to make sure it wasn't over heating and was running fine, which everytime it started right up and sounded strong as a bull ( car is a 93 eg with all motor b20vtec setup. Well the problem started when I tried to fire up the car one more time before putting the new parts on and when i cranked it up this time the power just died almost immediately and then the ignition was clicking indicating the battery had died. After charging the battery for a while i went to crank the car up again and it just kind of bogged out and died right back down and now when i go to start the car up it just keeps cranking but never fires up please lmk what possible reasons for this could be, as i said before the motor was running fine with no signs of any problems
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Old Jul 28, 2009 | 07:20 AM
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Are you out of gas?
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Old Jul 28, 2009 | 08:33 AM
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Do you maybe have bad gas by some chance? As the car has sat for ~10 months.

Try draining out the remaining gas and putting some fresh in there, just to be on the safe side.
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 06:41 AM
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it says it has just under a quarter tank but im gunna drain the gas, could the injectors maybe be clogged from the old gas and period of time its been sitting?
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 03:05 PM
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I don't think the injectors are clogged, but anything is possible. To check if the car is getting gas you can pull the spark plugs out and have someone crank the motor while you watch/smell. There should be a fine mist of fuel that you will be able to smell. You might as well compression test it at the same time.

If the motor is getting fuel, could be a spark/timing or compression issue. If the motor is not getting fuel make sure there is gas in the tank, then make sure the fuel pump is working. If there is gas and the pump works but the motor is not getting fuel you may have a clogged line, injector or filter. Just start disconnecting the fuel line from things and priming the pump until you find the blockage.
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