Re: [DML] car mysteriously dies - still!

[<eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Andy,

I was going to post on this same issue- my car started doing this same thing
yesterday.

I have had this kind of problem before in another car I had, and it turned
out that the distributor pulse coil was failing in it's own special way.

Could this be the problem here?

Thanks!

Eric Itzel
vin 4433


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Soma576@xxxxxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:16 PM
Subject: [DML] car mysteriously dies - still!


>
>
> Group,
>
> Last week I posted on here about how my car has been randomly dying ever
> since I took it out of storage last week.
>
> To recap, here are the symptoms:
> 1. Car will start up fine, hunt, then settle down like normal.
> 2. At seemingly random times the engine will quit but all accessories such
as
> lights and radio are unaffected.  the engine just dies.
> 3. Car will never restart immediately.  Takes from 15 seconds to a couple
> minutes and then it will restart.
> 4. While the car is dead, I have attempted to tap major running parts and
> connections to find something loose that could be causing it.  i can find
no
> positive correlation.
> 5. While the car is running, I am unsucessful in causing the engine to die
on
> purpose by tapping parts, jiggling wires, etc.
> 6. I used to think the problem was vibration induced because once as soon
as
> i shut the driver's door the car quit. however today I just had the car
idling
> in my garage and it died about half a dozen times.
> 7. Someone suggested my ignition switch may be bad. With the car running,
I
> can't get the car to die by banging on the steering wheel so I don't think
> that's the problem.
>
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