engine or tranny problems???
engine or tranny problems???
Today when I was driving my car it started to cut off on me as I was driving. When I stopped I popped the hood and reved it at the throttle and sounded fine and didnt bog down any. When it started happening it seemed like if I held my clutch in while I was reving real hard it would keep going but as soon I as I shifted it cut off on me. Now it wont start at all. It feels like when I had to pull my fuel pump fuse to release the fuel pressure to change the injectors. You have to pull the fuel pump fuse and crank it a few times. Thats what it feels like now, it will try to start and get half way started then cut off.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Any ideas?
Thanks
It sounds like one of two things. Fuel or spark. Start with the basics. Two things make an engine run (besides the mechanical aspect of them of course), you have air/fuel and then you have spark. Does the car have gas in it? And I'm not talking about what the gas gauge says...does it REALLY have gas in it?
If so, make sure that it is getting fuel. Is your fuel pump working? Is it dying? Are any of the warning lights on. Like your charge light. My car acted like that once when the alternator started dying. Turns out I was intermittantly running off battery. Acted the same way you justed described. Only my idiot light was burned out so I didn't know I had charging issues.
Next, make sure you have spark. I once had a friend that had a car that would chug and sputter every time he took a corner. Turned out his coil wire had rubbed through it's insulation and every time he took a turn it was grounding out against the fire wall .
Is your coil going bad? The easist way to check for spark at the coil is to pull the coil wire off the distributor and put a screw driver in it and see if it arcs on to a ground on the engine when you turn it over. BE CAREFUL... this is also a good way to get yourself juiced with 60,000 low amperage volts if you arent careful. Use a plastic handled driver and wrap the wire with a shop rag holding it well away from the exposed lead where the screw driver shaft goes into it. You should see a spark arc onto the ground everytime the coil bursts. Hold it about half an inch away.
You say you changed your injectors. Recently? Could you have done something wrong that wouldn't be apparent until now? Also, how many miles are on your engine? Maybe it has something to do with the timing. I have heard of people having problems like you describe because their distributor cap cracked. Just a few ideas to get your diagnostic thinking going. Hope it helps.
If so, make sure that it is getting fuel. Is your fuel pump working? Is it dying? Are any of the warning lights on. Like your charge light. My car acted like that once when the alternator started dying. Turns out I was intermittantly running off battery. Acted the same way you justed described. Only my idiot light was burned out so I didn't know I had charging issues.
Next, make sure you have spark. I once had a friend that had a car that would chug and sputter every time he took a corner. Turned out his coil wire had rubbed through it's insulation and every time he took a turn it was grounding out against the fire wall .
Is your coil going bad? The easist way to check for spark at the coil is to pull the coil wire off the distributor and put a screw driver in it and see if it arcs on to a ground on the engine when you turn it over. BE CAREFUL... this is also a good way to get yourself juiced with 60,000 low amperage volts if you arent careful. Use a plastic handled driver and wrap the wire with a shop rag holding it well away from the exposed lead where the screw driver shaft goes into it. You should see a spark arc onto the ground everytime the coil bursts. Hold it about half an inch away.
You say you changed your injectors. Recently? Could you have done something wrong that wouldn't be apparent until now? Also, how many miles are on your engine? Maybe it has something to do with the timing. I have heard of people having problems like you describe because their distributor cap cracked. Just a few ideas to get your diagnostic thinking going. Hope it helps.
Last edited by Clean13; May 28, 2004 at 09:35 PM.
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