A car engine needs four basic things to start: vaporized gasoline/fuel,
oxygen/air, compression, and spark/ignition. Since you sprayed starter
fluid down the throttle body (I assume the throttle plate was wide open when
you tried that?) and did not hear it trying to start, it either is very
badly flooded (you usually would smell this condition) or one of the other
necessary ingredients is missing.

I'd make sure you are getting ignition by removing the spark plugs (one at a
time to not mix up the wires) and making sure they are not fouled. If they
are old, just replace them with new, properly gapped plugs. If they are
fairly new, you can clean them with a bit of sand paper or emery cloth.
Spark can also be checked while they are out by leaving an ignition wire
attached and grounding the threaded base of the electrode. Be careful doing
this and use proper insulation since you do not want to get jolted by
several thousand volts!

If you have spark and fuel, then make sure the engine is not flooded. Also
check the air filter to make sure it is not clogged. If it has not been
replaced lately, then replace that as well since it will not hurt. If all
this fails, then you need to make sure you actually have the engine and
valves turning in synch and that the timing chain did not jump a few teeth
or completely break/fall off (no compression).

Good luck.

Bob

PS As another poster indicated, 4 quarts is the full capacity of the crank
case, so if you really were down more than 1 quart for any period of time,
then you likely have done significant long-term damage to the engine.



"Snow" > wrote in message
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On Dec 21, 4:38 pm, navaidstech > wrote:
> On Dec 21, 5:24 pm, Snow > wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have a Saturn 01 sl2 that will not start it will crank but will not
> > turn over I don't know if its because it 30 below today or what. Heres
> > the problem: Car would not start tried to Jump start the car. Car
> > would not take the jump. So decide to change the battery, still
> > noting, checked the oil which was VERY low put 4 quarts of oil in the
> > engine nothing. I think its the altnerator but I don't know. Also I
> > was leaking Coolent but it has now stoped and now Im leaking
> > transmission fuild. Can your car not start because of no transmission
> > fuild? Please Help!!!!!!!!
>
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> Oh man, sounds like you need a new car.
> Have you checked to make sure you got gas? Is the fuel pump working ?
> You should hear a soft whirrrrrrrrr sound coming from the rear of the
> vehicle just as you turn your key to battery position (one notch
> before crank). The sound will go for a second or so and then stop. If
> you don't hear it - it's your pump.
> Could be that your gas line froze as well (30 below, yikes!)
> If the car doesn't start when jumped, this tells me that it's not your
> alternator.
>
> Anyway, bottom line is to make sure gas making its way to the
> engine...

OK, So today I added a bottle of ISO HEET and some gas previously was
at 1/4 tank now at 1/2 , replaced the battery, .........still
nothing .... sprayed starter spray in the carb. still nothing I don't
think the engine seizes because it would just click instead of faking
like it wants to turn over..(actually had that happen before)...so I'm
like out of ideas. ..also when trying to crank if after the 5 try
the battery is drain and needs to be recharged new and old one.....

Thanks to all who replied..