engine died while driving Please help?

nos86 · Post by **nos86** » September 29th, 2007, 12:54 am

I was driving home and i started to hear a clicking sound and when I turned onto my street the CEL started blinking and then my engine died. I looked under the hood and the number one spark plug wire was disconnected from the distributor. I plugged it back on but the car would not turn over. Please give me any kind of input. Is it possible the wires are bad or the spark plugs? What should I do?

ITR0184 · Post by **ITR0184** » September 29th, 2007, 12:47 pm

If it isn't turning over, I would start troubleshooting the battery, Fuses, relays, starter, ignition switch. Just go down the line. Is your starter doing anything (Clicking)? The clicking you probably heard was the arc being thrown from the distributor. If you get it to turn over, but it wont start, check for spark. Pull a plug and see if it is arcing.

nos86 · Post by **nos86** » September 29th, 2007, 2:03 pm

When I try to start the car it sounds like it about to start but then it doesn't. I replaced the spark plugs but no luck still.

SerGTR · Post by **SerGTR** » September 29th, 2007, 11:30 pm

nos86 wrote:When I try to start the car it sounds like it about to start but then it doesn't. I replaced the spark plugs but no luck still.

get an OBDII scanner and find out what CEL code was blinking then continue diagnosing the problem

nos86 · Post by **nos86** » October 12th, 2007, 3:53 pm

distributor replaced problem fixed