Fernage

I bought and SC300 couple months ago and its been running great until today. I have driven it to school and back (~3 hour drive each way) numerous time without any issues. Yesterday I drove back to school and had no issues at all, but this morning I go to start it and it won't start. It seems like it is right about to start and it even seems to chug to life for a millisecond but it just won't get there.

Here is a video of a start attempt...
http://vid90.photobucket.com/albums/...psiw1w9jqm.mp4

Has anyone experienced this before? Any advice about what this could be would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

eknine9

iTrader: (8)

Check the cap and rotor on your distributor. They could be burned out which would cause this. They're cheap parts and relatively quick to replace.

Fernage

Well now I really don't know what to think. I am at school and I don't have any tools so I was just checking things like fuses and disconnecting and reconnecting connectors for the coil and ignitor just to make sure its not loose. When I removed a spark plug wire I found that the spark plug valley has a bunch of oil in it, so I figure that my valve cover seals are bad and the oil is leaking down onto the spark plug tips and ruining them.

However, since I don't have any tools to fix this right now, just for the hell of it I tried to start it one more time and it started right up. It seems to be missing a bit when idling, which I think is probably due to the spark plugs being in bad shape from the oil, but I don't understand why it just decided to start again. Now I'm nervous that its gonna randomly go back to not starting.

freakness

Dude,


You need to repair the source of the oil leak which in this case appears to be the valve cover gaskets. Otherwise the problem will reappear.



- Chester

Matromony

iTrader: (-1)

Check your timing as well

ISFFUN

iTrader: (4)

BTW to check your timing, use a light gun and make SURE you jump terminals TE1 and E1 first. Timing should be set at 10 degrees BTDC.