My car was overheating so I was checking the compression in the cylinders for a leaky head gasket.and went to start it afterwards and it kept trying to crank over but wouldnt start. All the ignition wires are attached in the right order on the d. cap and cylinders. I had all 4 spark plugs out at the same time when I was performing the compression test on one cylinder at a time.

I looked up the test in the Haynes manual just now and realized I didn't disable the fuel system by removing the PGM-FI main relay fuse.

All I did was unplug the spark plug wires from the the spark plugs and removed all the plugs at the same time. I attached the tester to each cylinder and cranked the engine about ten times for each cylinder. I installed the plugs and the wires are in the right order but now the car wont start.

Any clues why my car wouldn't start afterwards?

 

Do you still Have spark? When turn your key forward from the off position to the first detent, Do you hear your Fuel pump spin for 2 sec to pressurize the system?

 

You may have flooded your engine. Check your plugs and see if they are wet. This will also let the gas to evaporate in the cyclinders.

 

There wasnt a spark so I took it to my mechanic. He says there is power going to the distributor but no spark. He's putting a new distributor in tomorrow. Ill post again if it fixes it. Thanks for the help guys.

 

There is a fuse under the dash for the dist. Check it out.

 

Just got the car back and it starts up fine. They changed the distributor. I had checked all the fuses under the hood and dash but all were fine. Thanks for the help everybody.