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car wont run but has spark compression and fuel please help

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jakeabub

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Oct 21, 2009
sanbornville, New Hampshire
so my car wont start, it barely pops and farts when tunring it over i mean it wont fire really at all but its got every thinig it just ends up flooding it self out i donno where to go with this new gas timing is good up top and tuesday im ganna go down and check the bottom i have owned this car for 2 day i bought it like this i havnt actually done my own compression test so im ganna do that but if its good what could it be .it had a super afc wired into it that was wired like shit so i took that out fixed all the wiring grounded what wasnt but the kid said he let his gf try and wire in a sub and the batery was located in back she grouned the wire to the postive side or someshit like that i donno if he even knew what he was talking about but she fried a some shit poped so fuses e replaced a bunch of shit and after that the car wouldnt start:confused:
 
You gotta fix that run-on sentance.
Have you checked to see if she fried the ecu?
It could be the ecu that got fried and now it is calibrating everything wrong, causing the no start.
Also everybody loves pictures!!
 
i thught that but it haha as dumb as this sounds it didnt smell bad and my buddy fried one and its smelt like burnt cheese haha but it dosent meen it would smell ill get pics tomarrow or tuesday and maybe a quick vid its just it turns ofver so fast it sounds like it has no compression. but i have a 92 ecu i just need to swap 2 wires to make it work
 
turns out the car has no compression at all like not even a pound so im pulling the head to see if there is either a ass load of bent valves or holes in the pistons :banghead: that the only i could think of cause bad rings would still have some compression like 80 to 100
 
Wow. You need to edit that first post and throw some periods in there. The Mods will give you warnings for that!

On to the car. Sure go ahead and look inside the spark plug holes and ratchet the motor over to see if there's damage to the pistons before you start pulling the head. IF you pull the head, you might as well rebuild the engine since you'll have to change the timing belt. If you're changing the t-belt, you might as well replace the oil and water pump too. If you have the head off and you're replacing a bunch of stuff anyways... Why not rebuild it? STOP and think before you pull the head.

I don't know how or what you did to check timing but TDC is TDC after all. If there's a question about the electronics being damaged, check the fusible links in the engine harness. They're fuses designed to blow whenever someone does something silly like crossing polarity on the battery. Check ALL your fuses under the hood and dash. IF all the fuses look good, then consider other options.
 
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