Q: Why won't my 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier start?
I recently did a head gasket on a 2.2 Chevy cavalier 1996 now it won't start it's like it's flooding spark plugs saturated with fuel the first initial start it's fired right up made some noise and I shut it off then couldn't get it to restart I went inside came back out and hour later and tried again it started but when I let off the gas it shut off. The car will try to start then stop and just turn over
My car has 53000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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