{"id":37754,"date":"2016-12-16T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=37754"},"modified":"2016-12-16T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:23:47","slug":"1997-acura-rl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/12\/1997-acura-rl","title":{"rendered":"1997 Acura RL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37852 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1997-acura-rl.jpg\" alt=\"1997 Acura RL\" width=\"600\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1997-acura-rl.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1997-acura-rl-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>97 Acura RL. Vehicle won&#8217;t start. Battery is fine, starter is fine. Fuel pressure fine. Spark at coils fine. Has not jumped timing A scan revealed a <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/ect-engine-coolant-temperature.html\">Coolant Temperature Sensor<\/a> code. Replaced and cleared code. Still no start. Ideas? Trying to avoid replacing unneeded things for the sake of trying it (knock sensor, camshaft positioning sensor, ECM, etc). So what further things could I do to diagnose this no start?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>Determine what it is not getting and concentrate on that part of the system. I have a wonderful diagnostic chart that may help. What was the code?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/no-start-diagnostic-chart.html\"><strong>No Start Diagnostic Chart<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>97 Acura RL. Vehicle won&#8217;t start. Battery is fine, starter is fine. Fuel pressure fine. Spark at coils fine. Has not jumped timing A scan revealed a Coolant Temperature Sensor code. Replaced and cleared code. Still no start. Ideas? Trying to avoid replacing unneeded things for the sake of trying it (knock sensor, camshaft positioning&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/12\/1997-acura-rl\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1997 Acura RL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[259,1],"tags":[13,11200],"class_list":["post-37754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acura","category-auto-repair-questions","tag-no-start","tag-rl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1997 Acura RL - FreeAutoMechanic Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/12\/1997-acura-rl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1997 Acura RL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"97 Acura RL. 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