car wont start
Ok so every once in awhile my car wouldnt start that fast, id turn the key and it would sound like the battery wouldn't catch or something...so I bought a new batt cuz turns mine was bad...but thats not the prob.....so anyways, I put the new battery on turned the key a couple of times and the car started, but then my cousin who knows nothing about cars pulled out the last spark plug wire from my engine and the car turned off. Now the car won't start. It cranks but doesn't start. Any idea what it could be? Maybe pulling out the spark plug wire threw the time timing off or something?
Like 94 said, running with a spark plug wire disconnected can blow the coil.
When sometimes you hear a click from the starter but it doesn't turn, but it will eventually go if you try again, that often means the starter is about worn out and should be replaced.
When sometimes you hear a click from the starter but it doesn't turn, but it will eventually go if you try again, that often means the starter is about worn out and should be replaced.
Take the cap off take the rotor and insulator plate out turn the key on (do not crank) and see if you have battery voltage on the two small terminal screws on the coil. Then put the plate back on hold a grounded test wire near the coil output post and crank. Should get big blue sparks. Little yellow sparks mean a bad coil. No sparks at all could be something else.
If someone took off a spark wire causing it to die that's a very typical scenario leading to a blown coil.
If someone took off a spark wire causing it to die that's a very typical scenario leading to a blown coil.
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