1996 Saturn SL won't start

My boss gave me his '96 Saturn...he bought a 2004 Prius and doesn't want to try selling the car...he had it sitting in a field for a year...towed it home on sat....iginition comes on, fuel pump goes for a few secs then stops...engine turns over but wont' start.

No spark. New plugs, check plug wires, coil pack has resistnace across the twin leads and it's getting 12v constant on the pink wire into the coil pack...what else to check and how?

Please help :<

Tony

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wedgeindy
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Any hints to how it was acting prior to it sitting in the field?

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blah blah

Car was running good...it's got 200K miles on it but it the motor was running strong.

..teh back door likes to fling open, but that's another story.

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wedgeindy

Does it still have the year-old gas in it?

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NapalmHeart

Good point, but he said no spark so that would by the first thing to tackle for trouble shooting.

As for the fuel, I would get rid of the old fuel, and change the fuel filter.

good luck with your fixes, please keep us up to date.

thx,

tom @

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The Real Tom

True, kind of blew over that part.

How did you check the plug wires? Not knowing how old those wires are, I would suspect them.

Ken

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NapalmHeart

Well there are two ways I was shown:

  1. take the wires and check the ohms across them with an ohm meter, I don't remember the specific valuses you should see, but infinite comes to mind as bad.

  1. Buy new ones. No sense in wasiting time if the wires are just old. ;)

hth,

tom @

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The Real Tom

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