Pollishman

I haven't driven my car since monday and tried to start it up yesterday. When I went to crank it over it wouldn't start! The motor turns over but it doesn't stumble or give me any kind of hint that it wants to start. I checked one of the plugs by holding up to the motor and it has spark. Do I need to check all the plugs or is there a diagnosis I can try? I appreciate any help you may be able to give.
Thanks

Pollishman

The car is a 1988 N/A convertible.

skim003

Kinda sounds like you flooded it. did you check to see if the spark plugs were fouled or smell of gasoline?

Pollishman

I did pull a plug, but only after I had been cranking on it for a while. It had gas on the plug.

skim003

If you been cranking it for a while that most likely you made the flooding even worse. Well there is a simple solution, pull the "EGI Comp" fuse from the fuse box in the engine bay, turn the engine for about 15 seconds with the accelerator pedal down, put the fuse back in and start the engine without pushing the accelerator pedal(this is from rx7.com). Another precedure is the
ATF treatment. I flooded my engine once before finding out about these unflooding precedures, what I did was just remove the spark plugs and let the fuel in the engine just evaporate, it worked. if you want more information about unflooding precedures either do a search or ask in a new post. I'm sure there are lot of people in this forum who has flooded their engine.