Q: No fire to engine

asked by on December 08, 2017

Truck cut off during warm up ,fuel pumps working ,truck not getting any fire to engine, fuses good ,smelled like burned wires in cab but couldn't find any

My car has 175000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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