jimg.allentown said: (quoted from post at 17:22:53 06/29/15) As most others have suggested, the cap, rotor and wires are the most likely cause of the problem. BUT, I have also seen coils fail and start arcing over. Actually had it happen to me once. Went someplace to pick up a part, and when I went to start the car to leave, it would not start. Coil went bad.
My suggestion would be to do a bit of diagnostics.....
Start the engine, open the hood, and take a spray bottle of water and begin spraying around suspected problem areas. The problem should become visible fairly easily.
Some deductive reasoning:
Cap/rotor is prime suspect. That can prevent starting.
Wires are not as likely. After all, there are 9 of them, and only one of them is capable of preventing starting by itself. Likelihood of all 8 of the others failing at once? Not likely at all.
Coil is a definite possibility. Spraying a bit of water around the coil tower will show up a bad coil right away!
Other less likely possibilities are ignition module and PIP sensor (also called stator or pickup coil by GM guys).
Very good advice here. Salt water even better.
This post was edited by hot wrench at 16:10:14 06/29/15.
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