EMREGENCY! Oil line popped off spraying oil, now car wont start!

[DDGDSM]

Ok i had a oil line pop off on the way home the other day and spray all my oil out over the front of my engine bay and i heard a "rannnn" noise and the car shut off. i fixed the leak. changed the oil, oil filter, and plugs. now the car turns over but wont start. its like im not gettin any fire. Help me out guys i need this car runnin.

 

[crimsondragon]

Check for the usual...spark, fuel, compression, timing.

 

[boosted86]

i had a simialr problem, the head sized on me due to oil starvation. check for metal shavings in your oil...

 

[Project2G]

Be thankful your car didn't catch on fire. My buddy lost his GST when the oil line slipped off his scm61

 

[stockfornow]

Are you sure thats the only thing that popped off? Check you TPS plug and CAS plugs and yes check the usual as mentioned before.

 

[DDGDSM]

Do you need to drain all the oil the check it for shavings? i drain about half a quart or so out and no shavings. cam gears are still spinning so i don thtink the head seized up. Where are the pllugs your talkin about. Because i have been lookin it over left and right and cant seem to find ne thing else unhooked. i unhooked the battery to see if it needed to reset anything. I pulled the valve cover off and the cams and everything look clean just like they did before. Whats the easiest way to double check the timing? plug wires are hooked up correctly. so i dont know what else i can check.

 

[DDGDSM]

ive spent a hour goinin over every connection making sure its connected. i cant find one thats not connected. I unhooked the battery and checked all my fuses nothing bad. Ne ideas guys?

 

[winterftbl]

Check your alternator, It might of got oil inside it. That could be one reason. Also what sounds does it make when you turn the key? Does it just click, does it try to turn over? Let us know

 

[marcmsj]

Does the engine turn over at all? have you checked for fuel and spark?

 

[stockfornow]

TPS plug is on your throttle body on the back side of it, make sure it's not loose
CAS is on the valve cover make sure the plug is not unhooked
I just had both of those happen to me. OH, and make sure you're not out of gas!

Check spark have somebody start/crank the car for a little bit and you pull out the spark plug wire with the spark plug if you want and check and see if it has spark or not.

Also take the cam gear cover off and make sure your crank pulley and the cam gears spin (just in case you never know)

 

[DDGDSM]

Well the alternator was right by where the oil came flying out at. The engine turns over its just doesnt finish turning over. it spins and spins but no fire. The cams, cam gears all spin when it turns over. CAS is hooked i un plugged it and plugged it in just to make sure. I unplugged and plugged it back it to make sure. Oil on the alternator would cause it not to start? ### theres oil on it now. Could i spray some brake parts cleaner on it to tru and get it all off or do i need to take it off and clean it all and then put it back together?

 

[stockfornow]

Did you check everything else that I mentioned above?


Edit: No, oil on alternator would not cause not to start! It could ruin it, but then it just wound't charge the battery, but it should start even with the bad alternator and if the battery is full of charge, which I assume it is since it cranks over.

 

[DDGDSM]

ive checked everything i could think of. im gonna run to advance and get some brake parts cleaner and spray all the connector incase some oil got in some of my electrical connections. heres some pics and a vid of what it sounds like when i turn it over.

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Alternator area covered in oil.

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oil filter housing. where the line popped off and threw up all the oil. I got it blocked off now.

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All those sensor plugs are hooked up.

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[stockfornow]

Check spark and fuel to see if you're getting any!!!

 

[DDGDSM]

fuel pressure gauge says i have fuel pressure. pulling the plug wires the only way to check for spark?

 

[DDGDSM]

Ok i did the spark test. Im getting spark to the spark plug. i know im gettin fuel because i pulled the plugs out and i could smell the fuel on em. i put some dry plugs in and still got nothing. i checked all the connections and sprayed em down with brake parts cleaner and let em all dry out. tried again and its still not starting. Any ideas?

 

[ricktb]

compression test all I can think of

 

[boosted86]

the turn over sounded a little rough... try checking your cas... though if your absolutely positive that your getting spark and fuel then i cant really see why it wouldn't start... is your maf connector all the way in.

 

[Kalisko]

Have you checked fuses? Maybe a surge happened? Just my .02 cents

 

[DDGDSM]

Well i tried even swapping back to the stock ecu and same thing happened. All i can think of is the cam sensor. I know im gettin fuel ### the set of plugs i pulled back out were coated in fuel. I pulled the plug out and hooked it back up to the wire and turn it over and it was sparking so. Thats all i can think of. the maf is completely hooked up. I checked it. All the fuses inside the car are good. from what i can see all the fuses under the hood are good as well.

its like as soon as i put the wire on the plug inside the engine it quits firing. weird.

 

[thatblondechik]

I may be completely off, but if the plugs smell like fuel...might the engine be flooded? Try putting the throttle to the floor then cranking...clear out the cylindars. Like I said, this may be completely off, but something similar happened to my car. It would crank all day long, had fuel, had spark, just turned out to be flooded.

 

[DDGDSM]

well i put dry plugs in and it still wouldnt fire.

 

[bluegs03]

judging by the speed at which the engine cranked over, i would most def check for engine compression. Heres why when an engine compresses air it slows down slightly thats why you get a ra.. ra.... ra ...ra... sound by the key is that there is a pause inbetween that and thats the engine compressing the air. Your getting a rararararararar sound. What could of happened is the engine cylinder walls could of not gotten enough oil and glazed over causing the rings to not seal and thus not getting any compression. Do a compression test, because you have fuel and you have spark the only thing that it could be is compression.

An engine needs 3 things to run spark fuel and compression. When you have all three you will have an engine that works!

 

[DDGDSM]

gotta find a compression tester now. being that i have the fuel and spark, its probably the head gasket?

 

[bluegs03]

Yep so long as you have a visible spark and good fuel pressure its gotta be something with compresson sorry for the bad news. My bet is for glazed cylinder walls, headgaskets dont really just go because there is low oil pressure