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Car starts and stalls

I have checked the fuel pressure, the wires, fuel/air filters, spark plugs, changed fuel pump, whats happening...

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  • little-f Nov 15, 2008

    Yes, the car was hooked up to fuel pressure gage when it stalled.

  • little-f Nov 18, 2008

    Your comments are helpful, but untill I check into the last suggestion I can't really rate how helpful it was. It's an idea though.

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    Marvin May 11, 2010

    Did you have the fuel pressure guage hooked up when the engine stalled?

  • Anonymous Mar 14, 2014

    Can start car with start fluid, changed out fuel filter it had fuel in it and in the lines but car won't start.

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The chance of the Power Train Control Module (PCM) failing is very small, about 3% per industry research, so expert ndguy2481 is giving bad advice, it is more likely the crankshaft position sensor or the ignition module have a problem when they warm up. Run a test on the PCM to retrieve the trouble codes, I know there will be some. The connector to do this test is under the dash below the steering wheel under the dash panel.

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  • Shawanna Citizen Oct 26, 2019

    what if the tester wont read the connector to be able to get trouble codes

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I would require more information like year make and model. And if you have scanned it for any codes. Thank you

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The brain might be going out Try taking it to reasonable shop and have them test the brain Looking to out for u Shaun

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