Q: The car turns over but will not fire...

asked by on September 30, 2016

I had the heads rebuilt. Put in new head gaskets, and misc. gaskets from the kit. Put everything back together, but now it will fire but will not start.

My car has 126000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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