rocketman9206
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- Dec 4, 2022
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Nevada City,
California
My coworker has a 99 Eclipse GS 2.0 that cranks but won't turn over, let me begin with he has been having a intermittent issue with this for a few months (happened twice, but always was able to get it started) until Wednesday when it refused to turn over and start. So being a manual transmission he attempted to pop the clutch by rolling downhill as he has in the past and nothing, so he used a can of starting fluid and sprayed into the air intake, which started the car but it died out, so he had it towed home, determined that the fuel pump was not working and began that repair.
Fast forward to today, fuel pump is replaced, he can hear it activate when turning the key 2 clicks resolving that issue.
However now the car is cranking but won't turn over, even with starting spray, he had the battery tested and it's good, it has a new alternator, however while attempting to restart the car days ago, he tried over and over again to start it with the key, I'm talking 30 plus minutes of trying to do so, the car now seems to have a bit of a sluggish crank, not as fast and sounds quite different. I'm thinking he has stressed out the starter (he believes it's original) he is worried that the timing somehow jumped, but the belt is still in proper tension, no check engine lights have been illuminated prior to or after the fuel pump issue.
He's on a bit of a shoestring budget and is trying to resolve the problem himself, I will take a video and upload that in a bit but in the meantime any ideas of where to go next would be great.
Fast forward to today, fuel pump is replaced, he can hear it activate when turning the key 2 clicks resolving that issue.
However now the car is cranking but won't turn over, even with starting spray, he had the battery tested and it's good, it has a new alternator, however while attempting to restart the car days ago, he tried over and over again to start it with the key, I'm talking 30 plus minutes of trying to do so, the car now seems to have a bit of a sluggish crank, not as fast and sounds quite different. I'm thinking he has stressed out the starter (he believes it's original) he is worried that the timing somehow jumped, but the belt is still in proper tension, no check engine lights have been illuminated prior to or after the fuel pump issue.
He's on a bit of a shoestring budget and is trying to resolve the problem himself, I will take a video and upload that in a bit but in the meantime any ideas of where to go next would be great.
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