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sbceilings
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Dec 29, 2007, 4:24 PM
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1996 Mystique Mystery!
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1996 Mystique was running fine on way home, 30 minutes later, it would not start, just kept cranking. I removed a spark plug wires and there was oil surrounding all 4 plugs. I changed the plugs and when I went to start car, the starter made a grinding noise. Now it won't even crank. I can hear the relay when I turn key. Is it possible my starter went bad at the same time the other problem occurred? Maybe something electrical that effects ignition? Please help, I'm (Mystified). Thanks
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Tom Greenleaf
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Dec 30, 2007, 6:40 AM
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Re: 1996 Mystique Mystery!
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I'm not looking at this of course but I think I see what has happened. Are these plugs down thru the valve cover such that the oil pooled there? I think yes. That alone can short out the plugs from firing and the correction would be to redo the valve cover gasket and seals for the plugs AND check for things that could have aggrevated that to happen in the first place - sometimes pressure in crankcase is above what it should be which is slightly negative or a trace vacuum.
You may have wasted the starter in just trying. They work harder than you realize and get hot quickly. When a car just cranks for 5-10 seconds and hasn't even suggested it will start the starter motor needs a few minutes to cool down to try again.
At the moment you have to get the engine to crank again to proceed in finding out what was wrong to begin with. If the grinding is gears slipping/broken teeth this could get nasty!
T
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