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Need help bad car won't start

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Demon5spd

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Aug 18, 2006
omaha, Nebraska
Ok so i have looked at the search pages and couldn't find my exact problem.

Recently i had a no start condtion on my 1992 plymouth laser, i found out that my coolant sensor was bad so i replaced it, started right up so i thought i fixed it.

Well i just got back from vaction and the car dosen't start again :barf: so i go out and buy a spark plug tester and i have spark on all cyclinders, and i looked at my fuel pressure guage on my fuel filter assembley and it reads 37-41 psi so i know i have fuel,well at least to the injectors i do.

So my question is what else is there i don't have a check engine light on and as far as i can tell i have fuel and spark along with good compresion.

Oh after a couple times of not starting i did ck the plug they looked fine and i could smell fuel on them but they weren't wet at all which i thought was weird since i thought it should be flooded by now.

So i'm just not sure whats wrong i don't here a clicking in the dashto make me think it's a ecu problem but i will ck and i'm not sure how to ck the CAS but if it's getting good spark i'm guessing it works.

So i need your help guys please.
 
Sounds like maybe a fuse/relay? If those are all good, There is a way to hook up a test light to your injectors to see if it's getting a signal (while cranking). Try that, if it's not pulsating then my only guess would be to look into the computer.....

Does it "want" to start? Or is it just spinning....
 
Does it act like it is actually firing at all or not? Maybe you just dont have enough fuel coming through the injectors to start it. If you have compression & spark (as long as the spark is blue) all you lack is fuel & it will have to at least fire somewhat unless its out of time, but if that were the case it would not have good compression. I'm bettin fuel.
 
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