Try to prime the vehicle. 3.1L are very picky about their fuel presure. Do the following. Put your key in the ignition, turn to the RUN position, without starting, you should hear you fuel pump kick in. Turn it back off, and do it again.. do this 5-7 times. What this is doing is Priming your vehicle, removing the air from the lines, and rebuilding the presure in your fuel rail and injectors. When your vehicle starts, it may shake horribly, and might kill. Prime 1-3 more times, then re-start, and you should be golden. ;)
about 300.00 start to finish if you do it yourself
You can disconnect the battery for ten minutes and it will reset
The neuteral safety switch prevents the car from being able to start in any gear except park and neuteral.
Can you unhook the battery for a few minutes and reset the system?
Turn the ignition on but don't start the car, press the accelerator rapidly 3 times in less than 5 seconds, if you do it correctly, the change oil light will be reset, if it does not work, try it again until it does. I have used this on both of my wife's lumina's (both a '98, and a 2000) as well as my '96 Caprice.
crank sensor or the board the coil bank bolts to
no. you might have to reset the clock and radio.
Turn ignition on but do not start engine, depress accelerator to the floor three times within 5 seconds, oil change light should flash 5 times, oil change light is reset if you did this correctly.
NO! Just check the spark plugs; the fuel pump.
Spray some starting fluid down the air cleaner intake and try to start it. If it takes off for a second but then dies, it's not getting any gas. Your job then it to figure out why.
Subaru and sedan.
You can't just "reset" the computer to make it start. On start up, it is in a default mode. Afterward it gathers information from the sensors and compensates accordingly. It, most likely, is something else.