Q: Replaced timing and my truck still won't start.

asked by on March 10, 2018

I recently lost power to the vehicle it was running before and died. I pulled a plug wire and it fired up leading me to timing. I replaced the chain and the truck still won't fire up it turns over fine just won't fire.

My car has 314000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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