car wont start, hasnt been started in a few months now and prior to that it wasnt started in about 1 1/2 years, not really sure where to begin looking to see what the problem could be. the car is my dads and he is deployed to iraq for a year so i have it now till he gets back and i want to get it running so i can drive it around. any help is appreciated.

oh and the engine will turn over but thats about it, it wont actually start up

 

Check the FAQ, it's covered in there in great detail. Do you have spark? Do you have compression? Do you have fuel? Battery FULLY charged?

 

Where are you in VA? I could maybe give you a hand if you are close enough.

Kent

 

im in newport news so im far as **** from you if your still in lynchburg lol, i would know i had to drive out there to pick up a car one day lol

 

Try and de-flood if you have spark and fuel. Pull the top 2 fuses on the fuse block and pull the spark plugs turn it over till you dont have a fuel mist. put everything back together and try and start her up.

 

ok ill give that a try hopefully today and see what happens

 

my gsl-se sat for a long time and all i did was give it a push start with enother car and it started and blew some smoke but ran good after that

 

always that about trying that just figured that it wouldnt do much since the starter is still good

 

Figures. It seems like every 1st gen owner on here from VA is either in NOVA (3+ hr from here) or on the coast (Virginia Beach, Hampton Roads, etc.). If the weather was nicer, I would come to help just to get away from this snow.

First check that you have spark on all plugs. Does the tach move when you crank the car? If not, your trailing plugs may not have spark. On the SE, the signal for the injectors come off trailing, so no trailing also equals no fuel.

See if your plugs are wet from fuel. It might just be flooded.

Check those things 1st and we will go from there.

 

removed the spark plugs yesterday, there not wet, just a lil black replaced it with some that are better (not new ones). the tach does move when i try to turn it on, checked the spark plug wires and the distributor cap didnt see any crackes or anything that didnt look right.
next i plan to check to make sure its getting fuel, not to sure how to do this though

 

tried to push start it just for the hell of it and nothing happened, pulled out on of the spark plugs and it sounds like it has good compression, was gonna check for spark but it started raining a little so i had to put a hold on that

 

Was the plug wet when you pulled it after trying to push-start? If it was dry and you didn't smell gasoline, then you probably aren't getting any fuel.

 

i dont really recall it being wet, and i dont really remember smelling any gas but that is something that i will try and again and check out just to make sure

 

yea man when i push started mine i had to use enother car to push me and got the car going like 20 mph and droped it in 2nd, and poped clutch it sputtered a few times but i pushed it like 4 or 5 times before it started up,of corse i tied up a tire to the other car so it didnt damage my car