Jetselsk8r

I put in a new deck recently in my 83 rx7. There were only 4 wires going into the old tape player and the people at the radio shop are retarded so I ended up rewiring all the speakers individually to the new deck. The stereo runs perfect now but now my car wont start. I accidentaly ran it's battery out of power and attempted jumping it but it just wont start. It turns over every time but wont start. The first time we tried jumping it, it started for a minute but died then after that wouldnt start again.

Any help would be great. I personally think it was a coincidence that it stopped running after i rewired the stereo but i might have unplugged something important. One of my friends thinks that I might have a problem with my alternator.

If you know what you are doing when it comes to first gens that dont start ANY advice or ideas would really help me out ALOT!

p.s. I've been grounded from driving for 2 months and now that I finally can drive again my car doenst run. Its making me really angry so any help would be AWESOME.

E-mail (if you want) to jetselsk8r@yahoo.com

MattG

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So it started up for a min. then it died correct? And now it just turns over.

If it ran for a minute then died out, it makes me think that its ok. When you tryed to start her back up could you have flooded it?

Let it sit for awhile and go try it again, and put a batt charger on it.

im trying to keep it simple here. Knock the simple stuff out first

motrhed

Your flooded. Pull the plugs. Hit the starter for 30 sec. (no more then that) take the plugs and light a match and burn the fuel off the end of them (do not burn your self), Put them back in and start your car. If it does not start Pull the plugs, put a tea spoon the tranny fluid in the bottom holes, burn the fuel off the plug again (do not burn your self) hit the starter for 60 sec, go walk around the block (5 min starter cool down) come back and hit the starter again for 30 sec. Put the plug back in and start the car. IT WILL SMOKE FOR 5 mins at least thats norm. If it still does not start e-mail me, I will buy your car!

MattG

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lol, lets not go that far to buy the mans car now! That is an easy fix

trochoid

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Mothred, you are about half right, and if he followed your instructions, he has a good chance of having an engine bay fire.

Pull the plugs, clean and dry them, brake cleaner works good for this. Take the fuse out for the fuel pump, lay the plug wires away from the engine and crank the engine over for 20-30 secs 2-3 times. Take the lid off the air cleaner and pour a capful of motor oil down each barrels of the carb, turn the engine over a couple times more.

Reinstall plugs and fuse, start engine.

Rotor13B

+1
If it doesn't start, wash, rinse, repeat. Oh, And a push start would'nt hurt either.

Latin270

Could be a short somewhere to.....right? I remember blowing a fuse by wiring a Alpine CD player and my car wouldnt start. Found to blown fuses replaced them and she fired right up!

Jetselsk8r

I tried to clean and dry the spark plugs and run the engine. Its still not starting and will still turn over but wont start. I followed trochoid's steps very precicely except i used auto cleaner\degreecer to clean the spark plugs.

This over all did nothing and it is doing the same thing it was the first time i tried to start it.

If anyone has anyother ideas that would help.

rolfs_7

just push start it like Rotor13b said.... I did that when I picked up my car. the kid I got it off of thought the fuel pump was gone haha I dunno why he thought that but I made my g/f push it and dumped the clutch in reverse gave it some gas and it fired up and spun the tires.....wouldn't hurt also check ur fuses as Latin270 said

trochoid

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Degreasers leave a film, brake cleaner won't. I have had to bead blast new plugs, then clean them with brake cleaner to get them to fire at times.

If all else fails, push or pull start, if that doesn't work, then start looking at the ignition system, again. One of my favorite f__ups is to forget to put the rotor back in the dizzy. Wiped a few batteries in my day doing that.

Jetselsk8r

All my fuses are good. None of the advice yet has helped me so I'll probably have to resort to paying someone to fix it. Thanks for the help though.

Any Different ideas would still be helpful.

boyee

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maybe its not the question of too much gas flooding ur engine... how about too little gas.. little enough that you need to add more? seriously.

81gsl12a

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did you check the fuese unde the hood? on the driver side strut tower?

Jetselsk8r

Wait under the hood on the strut tower? Is there a fuse box there or what?
I havent checked any fuses in the engine compartment so i'll try that out .

81gsl12a

iTrader: (1)

they have cloth on them they dont really look like a fuse but they are

Jetselsk8r

Thanks for your guys help. I feel really stupid but on accident while I was changing my radio I blew a fuse. I took a fuse from on of the spare fuse holders or what I thought was a spair but actually ended up being the FUEL PUMP fuse. Thanks for all your help though even tho it was simple i got to know my ride a lot better and learn how more of it worked.

boyee

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sweet i was right!! good to hear you have found the problem and fixed it! have a good one!

UNDISPUTED_FB

hahaha
i did that too, i was stranded on a mountain for 3 hours before i realized it, good thing for pick a part and 2 pocket fulls of fuses

DonQuixote

I had the same problem. I did a compression test and it was fine. I put a timimg lamp on all four wires and it proved good. So all that was left was fuel. I bravely poured a capful of fuel straight into the carb and it started Immediately.

Latin270

Yea I should have been more specific when I said to check the fuses.