Last night I checked my timing and it was right on and I also tested my coil and it was good. Then I decided to mess with my plug wires a little bit and after that tried starting the car and it fired right up so I believe my plug wires are part of the problem.

 

Well I tried starting my talon again today and it will not start up again today. Tomorrow I am going to look at the connector and take the coolant sensor out and test it in hot water. Hopefully that is the problem.

 

Tomorrow I'm going to check the fuel pump, fuel pressure solenoid, and the pressure regulator. What would be the best way to go about testing these? I am also going to get out my soldering iron and redo my connector for my engine coolant sensor.

 

You tested the coil but are you getting spark? Also check to see if your getting an injector pulse.

 

I had my heater running in my garage today for a few hours and then I was finally able to start my talon up. So that makes me believe that I do need to redo my connector to my coolant temp sensor, also I must not have tightened up the TPS well enough. I could hear air coming from it while the car was running. Right now I am headed out to the garage with a soldering iron to inspect my connectors and fix the ones that need to be fixed.

 

Tonight i was able to redo the connector to my coolant temp sensor and it was able to start up now but you can here a big air leak at around the throttle body area and also when you have the key turned on you can hear ticking coming from the engine bay and I notice that it is from the ISC because when I unplug it the ticking stops. Does this mean that my ISC is bad? Also would a bad TPS let air out of it because i think that is where the air is coming from.

 

Sounds like the throttle body shaft seals are bad.

 

I have another throttle body so I should probably just try that one then and hopefully that one with be ok. Is that normal for the ISC though?

 

Here is what the ticking sounds like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shb2-g4qCUU

 

It must not have been noticeable before cause I never heard it until I replaced the TPS and put the throttle body gasket in, when I removed the throttle body to replace the TPS there was no throttle body gasket. There must have been a small leak there without the gasket. So when I put the gasket in I'm guessing that there was always a leak in the intake manifold gasket but just made it worse by fixing the leak at the throttle body due to an increase in air pressure.