Hey Scotty my name's John. I have a 1993 Toyota paseo I was running the wrong spark plugs for a while and they were Platinum I recapped them to 35 and I put them in the car and they seem to be working so I was broke at the time I couldn't afford the spark plug so I put those in and then all of a sudden the car stopped running right it started misfiring a little bit so then I got the right spark plugs and I put those in and it's still giving me the same problem then I advanced the distributor a little bit got the Rev a little higher and it didn't make it not a few miles till it died and it hasn't started ever since I replaced the cap the rotor the spark plugs the spark plug wires I got a new starter nothing is working my battery seems to always be dead and when I'm jump starting it with another car it seems to try to start a little better but it's not when I do get it started a couple times I'd have to hit the gas and keep the RPMs up but it would just die I put the distributor in all sorts of different places I have my friends move the distributor trying to find that sweet spot cuz I don't have a timing light but I can't even use the timing light even if I had one because I can't get the car started please help
Well having the wrong spark plugs in isn't going to really damage a car unless the spark plugs were so long. They'd hit the top of the Pistons and damaged stuff and you would have heard it rattling like mad. Now there's a ton of reasons the car won't run, but from your explanation of taking the distributor in and output in a different ways, I would assume it's something wrong has happened with the timing on it or the engine is internal damage. Start by doing a compression test of the engine to see if it even has compression
