Q: no start

asked by on September 30, 2017

i have 1997 plymouth grand voyager it has been started for 7 years and so i tried starting it yesterday and when i was cranking it there was a spark from the distributor jumping to the engine. can it be a wire touching the engine or something?

My car has 65000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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