OH NO celica won't turn over, advice needed Options

[95CelicaST]

so the moisture in the air is causing a short somewhere?

Did you check your grounds? Make sure your coil wire off the distributor is plugged in all the way to the coil?


This is a strange issue indeed..

[uberschall]

i checked every connection i could. i live in an apartemnt complex, so i don't have a garage...and since the weather has been rather damp and cold lately, whatever is causing the issue is rearing it's ugly head regularly but not predictably enough that i could get it to my parent's place (read: garage) to isolate that variable.

i had aaa tow it to a nearby shop earlier this afternoon and rode my bike to and from school. the killer is that i have two jobs and 3 classes that i can't default on in the meantime...so there aren't alot of opportunities for me to devote great amounts of time to figuring out what's wrong with it.

i would have liked to figure it out myself and do the repairs myself, but right now having a car that does what i need it to is more important than the pride.

the car hasn't been in the shop since i bought it, hopefully it turns out okay.

thanks for the input everyone, i'll keep posting.

[nightryder]

judging by the randomness of the "non-starts", it sounds like a ****ty electrical connection. follow back from your distributor to the igniter and igniter coil. Cant remember which, but one is sitting on top of the other.




jiggle the connection on the right side while someone tries to turn it over. there is often a loose connection here in our cars, I know of lots of guys that have had this same issue.




if that doesn't work try pulling the plug out and slightly bending the pins to ensure a strong connection. This was all I had to do and the problem was fixed. good luck.

[95CelicaST]

ignitor is on top of the coil.

It might just be that you don't have a good enough ground somewhere. Thats where my money is. We'll find out soon though.

[uberschall]

well, it was the distributor. it had actually melted on top and wasn't consistently tranferring power. i couldn't see it while it was on the car.

i would be ashamed to admit how much money i could have saved by acting on my hunch to replace it from the get-go, but i would prefer to simply pass along the valuable lesson i have learned:

if you have an idea, the best thing to do is act on it...the worst that could happen is that you have to come up with another idea.

it's fixed now, and at least i have that peace of mind. arguably, i've been extremely busy with work and school lately, so as i said before, it's just as well that i got it fixed and it's one less thing to worry about.

i'd still like to thank everyone that pitched in along the way.

rough week!

[95CelicaST]

Awesome. Thats good to hear. I'm glad it wasn't something a lot bigger... like an electrical problem.

[uberschall]

... like an electrical problem.

upside to everything!