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ok i’m trying to help a friend with her car because she is stranded
(i am not a mechanic but with your guys help i did fix my honda…and she is “very” poor and no one will help her for free)
this is what i know from looking at the car and what they told me
the car was running ok until the 3rd of december, they went to drive it down the street and all the sudden the engine got really loud and would not accelerate when the gas pedal was pressed down. the car then stalled out and they couldn’t get it too start again
the history of the car that i know….
it’s the canadian model has about 90,000 km on the od ….ecotec 2.2l
earlier this year the fuel pump was replaced with a used one…. car was running fine after
new catalytic converter and muffler (because someone stole hers in a parking lot near detroit and cut the pipe)
before the stall out they got a check engine light….. code po302 misfire cylinder 2 …they drove it like that it was running
after the stall out this is what they and i tried (air/fuel, spark, compression)
i checked to make sure fuel pump was still working by depressing the fuel line bleeder… with the key in the on position fuel sprayed out and then no pressure….when turned key to start position fuel sprayed out very strong so i would say we have a good fuel pump.
the replaced the coil pack and tried it with a new one didn’t do anything so they returned it along with the piece that attaches to it that plugs into the harness (can’t remember what it’s called at the moment) this was before i showed up
kinda hard to check the spark because this car has a coil pack and we dont have the proper tools….so we pulled the coil pack and pulled a spark plug and set it in the coil pack where it goes…..and…. well…. got shocked pretty good ….so i will say it does have spark
i have no way of checking compression because i can get my finger over the spark plug hole to plug it to see if there is any at all and i dont have the proper tool to test it (but i do know the pistons are moving up and down in the cylinder cause i can see them…and from what i can see they look pretty clean no oil or anything on them)
we tried pulling the plugs one by one and cleaning them and spraying starter fluid in the hole putting it back together and trying to crank it….nothing not even a pop….
we tried spraying the starting fluid into the air intake before the butterfly valve….nothing
im at a loss on this…..i dont even know what to check on this car
my guesses are one of these or more.
possible blown head gasket (cause i got the same kind misfire code on my honda when it happened and the crank no start)
possible stretched timing chain causing it to be out of timing
a sensor that’s not throwing a code
clogged cat/ exhaust
clogged injectors.
literally any help is appreciated….if we can fix this she won’t have to walk 5 miles to a bus then take it another 10 miles back and forth everyday
thank you
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