Yea, but if he put in a gallon there should be no problem. If you did run it bone dry and die to many times I'd say your fuel pump over heated. But if you can't get it started with starting fluid... that's not good. Cause it should at least crank over for half a second.

 

I think your coil and or ignitor went bad during his "test" I had something similar happen to me and it could be that these parts were on thier way out or his unorthodox testing caused a failure, In all my years of working on cars, Ive never heard of such a "technique"

 

If you car is stick you can push start it, call the guy and beat him down

 

You can not push start or roll start a car that has ignition problems, that only works if a dead battery is the problem.

 

You can start a car by popping the clutch if your starter is dead as well.

And if you were already almost empty with you tank, and only added a gallon, i have had problems where my car wouldn't start with only that much in it. Is the car on a flat surface?

 

Yeah, its on a flat surface, Today I tried the screwdriver in the plug wire next to a bolt and tried starting it, I got no sparks that I could see. So i took the dist. cap off and tried to get the rotor off, I unscrewed the rotor and pulled gently and it came off with little effort. Then I realized that the base of the rotor was still on the distributer peg. It was broke in two. So I took the rotor off my 4dr and tried to start it but still no spark. Im pretty sure the coil is out and the rotor is just coincedence as usual.

 

Do you hear you fuel pump when you turn the car to accessory?

 

how was the distributor cap? did u try all the plug wires?

 

what exactly do u do with the seafoam? just dump it in the gas tank and drive around a bit?

 

he has eaither brnt out the coil pack or fubard the distrubitor, get some one with the same car and use there distrubitor and see if that help, or try the coil pack, you'll find out if it one or the other, if not, then i donno! hope i could help!