why ?

ok last night she ran fine, no troubles ever. I go to start it this morning and alls it does is cranks, never turning over, not even a glimer of hope. has plenty of gas and the fuel rail is getting gas. plugs look ok.

what or how can i tell if the distributor is sparking or if i need a new one.
where do i look for more things on why it wont start , where do i go from here?

any help will be greatly apprecated..... thanks

Modified by spacin at 12:18 PM 1/31/2005


Modified by spacin at 1:04 PM 1/31/2005

 

weird i just went outside to try again and its running now...
it didnt want to start at first but i gave it a little gas and it fired right up ...lots of smoke out the back at first but seems ok?
wtf? any ideas? dizzy going bad? ignitor going bad? time for a new cap and rotor?and some new plugs... pretty sure neither has been replaced in awhile.....

 

Try to let th pump prime few times before you crank the car...

I always do it when it is cold...

I usualy let the pump prime 3 times before I start the car...

 

And yes, I forgot to tell you...

DO NOT APPLY GAS when starting...

Just prime 3-4 times and start the car without pushing the gas pedal... it should start without problem...

 

Sounds like igniter to me since they don't give too much of a sign when they go out plus you said you had a lot of smoke which probably means there was a lot of fuel in the chambers=fuel is working, but no spark.

Next time take a plug out, keep it hooked up to the wire and put it close to metal and start it, if you see a spark, you have spark, if you don't, no spark= your problem. HTH

 

yeah thats what i thought also

just seem weird that it would start at all

still running fine atm, i think i'll replace everything dizzy wires plugs just in case

 

wtf same thing today

what the hell

i've never had trouble starting cold guess i'll do some more searching

any one got any ideas??

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by technine &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Sounds like igniter to me since they don't give too much of a sign when they go out plus you said you had a lot of smoke which probably means there was a lot of fuel in the chambers=fuel is working, but no spark.

Next time take a plug out, keep it hooked up to the wire and put it close to metal and start it, if you see a spark, you have spark, if you don't, no spark= your problem. HTH</TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KKVTi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">And yes, I forgot to tell you...

DO NOT APPLY GAS when starting...

Just prime 3-4 times and start the car without pushing the gas pedal... it should start without problem...</TD></TR></TABLE>

Take their advice. Did you check for spark?

 

it starts speraticly, started up fine as day this morning, so i asume its getting spark

seems strange .... i'm gonna pull out a plug today and see if it sparking strong or iif its hella dirty......

 

When its not starting try it.