Hi all, I have been reading the forum for a while now, and have gotten a lot of good info. I now have a problem that hopefully someone can help me with. We were driving up a long steep hill out of Bishop Ca. when the Montero started losing power, and then died. I am trying to find out what could be wrong with the car. It has about 14,000 miles on a rebuilt engine. When I got it home I checked to see if the timing belt was ok and it was, there is spark to the plugs,fuel to the injection, and the engine turns over. I took the hose from the air cleaner to the injection off and sprayed starting fluid into the injection while turning the engine over but did not get any firing from the engine I put my hand over the injection while turning over the engine and there is vacumn. Does anyone have any sugestions as what to do next.

Did it over heat?

no it didn't over heat it was about half way up on the temp. it is geting fuel to the injection, but I think that using starting fluid it should fire with out gas.

If it's getting Air and Fuel.. it's not sparking, so I'd start with your distributor.. check the cap+Rotor and ignition coil.

Good luck,
Brendan.

I took the wire off one of the spart plugs, connected another used plug to the wire grounded it turned the engine over and could see the spark plug sparking and the engine rotated.

When you say rebuilt engine do you mean a remanufactured engine from a supplier or something you or a machine shop did?

It sounds like you have Fuel, Air and Spark so I would check the timing with a timing light. Don't burn up your starter turning it over to long. It's not firing at all, not even a sputter?

Might be time to do a compression check.

I bought a reman from a supplier, and there is not even a sputter when trying to start it. I will chect the timing, all parts seem to be turning and rotating ok.

Remove the two rear spark plugs and see if it attempts to or starts.
Conner

How did you check for fuel to the injectors?