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
Any hints to how it was acting prior to it sitting in the field?
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.
Does it still have the year-old gas in it?
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 @
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
Well there are two ways I was shown:
hth,
tom @
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