Andy, The fuel pump to the car is like your heart beat, If it misses a beat your going to feel a major jerking motion. How could it miss a beat, either it starved a sec for gas or it was shut off a second. Since the rpm relay is the electrical safety for the system, if you have one I would replace it and see what happens. The contacts in the relay could be burnt real bad and losing contact or the coil could get hot and open. I have also seen the relay loose on the PC board. If it's ok then your loosing a hot or gnd wire somewhere to the pump since you said your getting that jerking motion. If it just dies then that's another problem. John Hervey www.specialtauto.com -----Original Message----- From: Soma576@xxxxxxx [mailto:Soma576@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:48 PM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [DML] Re: sudden death List, Today i did the following to try and fix this: 1. checked inertia switch again. I removed it and found that the housing was cracked so i temporarily by-passed it. 2. replaced fuel and ignition related fuses and put dielectric grease on them 3. added 5 gallons gas. I drove about one mile before the car shut off after taking a normal corner, but it immediately restarted as i coasted and turned the key. i noticed that the rest of the way home, my Tach would stutter every now and then, like make a single jerking motion as if the car died for a split second. it didn't shut off the rest of the way home (another mile). I then checked my negative ground on the battery and was able to turn it about 3/4 of a turn. i didn't test drive after that because it was getting late. could that be the problem? any other suggestions? ALL parts in the fuel tank are less than 2 years old. Andy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/