Thread: car wont start.. fuel pump??

so you have fuel, but do you have spark? not sure if you've got the ga16 or the SR in your's or if this applies to both motors, but this happened to my ga16 once. pull the cap off your distributor and check to make sure the screw holding the rotor to the shaft hasn't worked it's way out. it causes the rotor to freewheel on the shaft giving you intermittant spark. it happened to mine. the odds of it happening to your's as well are pretty slim, but you never know. now if something smoked behind your dash, something is most likely fried. pull your ecu and other electrical components back there and smell them. if they smell burnt, then replace. if it's your ecu that's fried, then that would be a good cause for no-start. good luck!

checked to see if the fuel pump was getting power...no power at all...put the fuel pump to constant power and it turns on... i searched behind the dash and could not find the problem until i looked at the wiring for the turbo timer who ever hooked it up did a bad job one of the wires grounded out and burnt it selfout... i replaced the wire and she fired right up....