Re: click - no crank - update

["Nate Stuart" <nathan.stuart@maine.edu>]

>
> > Friend push started me tonite & ran fine. After stopping , I tried a
start
> > in hope of miraculous recovery. Now the starter winds but sounds like it
is
> > not engaging (empty, spinning, crappy sound). Any advice? The starter &
> > solenoid were replaced about 6 mos. ago (I think).
>
> It's hard to distinguish the noise of a futile starter from the noise of
> an engine spinning with no compression.  I hesitate to suggest this, but
> the next move has to be spinning the engine on the starter with the
> distributor cap removed - does the rotor arm move?

How is there no compression if the engine was just running fine after the
push start???

-Nate