2000Contour
New CEG'er
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2006
- Messages
- 5
This morning my 2000 Contour SE Sport w/115k started briefly and died. It then failed to start and the rythm of engine cranking sounded unusual -- like a complete lack of compression. Having experience as a mechanic in the 80s I was convinced that the timing chain took a dump. My son and I were about to teardown the V6 and thought I should get some timing chain replacement info first on contour.org. I was astounded to to find in a post that this problem could simply be a severe engine flooding. We went back and cranked it at full throttle and it fired after 2 minutes. Amazing! Thanks to Big Jim for this solution and all the others who share their knowledge in this forum!