Engine Flooded., Wont start, flooded with fuel. Options

[sugarfree]

My car last friday died on my street when i was coming home from work. I drove probably 2 miles while the car was misfiring because spark plug wire#3 came off the distr. Well i cant get it to start now and when i take the spark plugs out, theres fuel all over them I took all 4 of them out to let the fuel dry in there. But i still seem to be having the same problem when i put everything back together. It wont crank up, itll want to crank up but then itll bog down and die. Any ideas?

[sugarfree]

yea but i know its the timing belt. Its been 10years since it was replaced. I had bocsh, but not sure if it was the +4. The ones i had lasted week. Weak, so i went with NGK iridium.

[Punisher]

yea but i know its the timing belt. Its been 10years since it was replaced. I had bocsh, but not sure if it was the +4. The ones i had lasted week. Weak, so i went with NGK iridium.

Unless your timing belt broke.. why would it be the belt? UNLESS it jumped a few teeth...

The lighter in the cylinder idea is a dumb one at best.

If you want to see fire, set the plugs in the wires and set the plugs over the holes on the valve cover and crank the engine.. You'll see plenty of flames.

What people here should have recommend you do is check for spark.. basically how I just described.. If you don't feel safe doing that just set one of the spark plugs with it in the wire on the exhaust manifold (or heatshield) and have someone crank the engine while you look for spark.. if you don't see spark then you know something isn't right with either the ignition system or the timing belt broke.

Then you can take the cap off of the distributor and have soemone crank engine while you look to see if the rotor turns.. if it does not turn.. then you know the Tbelt is shot.

Also you can crank and crank crank and crank all you want.. you won't flood your engine.

This happened on carbureted vehicles because the fuel isn't metered as presicely (sp?) as with a fuel injected vehicle. So you basically just had a **** ton of fuel running from the carburetor down the intake manifold and then you would get puddles of fuel collecting in the intake manifold as well.

But since we have port injection.. the fuel gets shot straight at the open valve.. The computer won't let the engine get flooded. For every shot of fuel that is sent into the cylinder and is unburnt, it will just get launched out of the cylinder on the exhaust stroke.