I have a 1995 Toyota Camry with the 5SFE engine and an automatic transmission. Recently, I merged into traffic and accelerated hard and wound the engine up to about 5k RPM. At that time the engine stalled, and has not started since. When the engine first died, the motor would barely turn over when I tried to start it, even with a jump. I let it sit for a few weeks until I had a chance to look at it again. Now the engine turns over fine, but still will not start. A few times it sounded like it almost wanted to start, but no dice.
It is getting sufficient fuel, it's getting spark, albeit not good spark (Yellow). The plug wires are now bad since I broke them while trying to remove them (cheap wires
) and the plugs are worn out. It could very well be an issue with spark, but why would the engine just up and quit and never come back? Especially when it was operating just fine up until that moment.
I put the motor at TDC, and the rotor is pointing right at the number 1 spot on the distributor cap, so that hopefully rules out the timing belt being off.
What can I do to test the distributor on this car? I'd like to confirm that it's definitely bad before I up and replace it.
What else should I look at?
As soon as I finish extracting the broken wires, I'm going to run a compression test as well. I hate throwing parts at things, so I'm hoping I can narrow this down while I fight with the wires (NGK plugs and wires will be all I use from now on)
What's wrong with this car?
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