Car died.... now what ?
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Racer
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From: Cincinnati Ohio
Car died.... now what ?
Early 86 HT/Auto I've put less than 100 miles on the car this year and with winter coming thought I would check it over before the deep freeze hit. I had trouble starting it and keeping it running at first then drove about 1/4 mile and it started running bad like the maf went out (had this happen before) I unplugged it and it would idle so I headed home slowly and 600 feet from home it started to die at about 300-500 rpm with the low coolant light, check engine light, and low voltage light on lucky for me I was able to place it in neutral and coast to a parking spot. I got out my trusty paper clip to pull codes and nothing happened I tried a different clip and different pin locations and still nothing.......so now what ? Yes I had the key on and the instrument lights where on but no flashing... ???
Last edited by OBSESSION; Nov 13, 2007 at 06:27 PM.
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With the ignition on, engine off, as when preparing to pull codes, is the check engine light on? It is supposed to be. If not, check for a burned out bulb. If the check engine light isn't on, and the bulb is good, it's time to pull out the FSM.
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Racer
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With the ignition on, engine off, as when preparing to pull codes, is the check engine light on? It is supposed to be. If not, check for a burned out bulb. If the check engine light isn't on, and the bulb is good, it's time to pull out the FSM.
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Check engine light was on, tried to pull codes but nothing happened.
Drifting
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I would start with the basics: fuel and spark.
Put a timing light on one of your plug wires to see if it lights while you crank. That will indicate if you are getting spark.
Put a fuel pressure guage on the shrader valve and check for 39 or so lbs of fuel.
Put a timing light on one of your plug wires to see if it lights while you crank. That will indicate if you are getting spark.
Put a fuel pressure guage on the shrader valve and check for 39 or so lbs of fuel.
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Racer
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Update
I got it running with a little research on here, found the fuel pump relay was bad. As for not being able to pull codes I still can't figure that one out I must of done something wrong because when I went back to do my testing with the flow charts it worked fine. Oh....... no codes where set by the way.
I got it running with a little research on here, found the fuel pump relay was bad. As for not being able to pull codes I still can't figure that one out I must of done something wrong because when I went back to do my testing with the flow charts it worked fine. Oh....... no codes where set by the way.
