Re: [DML] lost power

[Soma576@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/1/04 11:36:25 AM Central Standard Time, 
mydmc5898@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Ok I was driving home after a successful day of driving my D, anyway 
I stoped with a friend to go get coffee, and as we pulled back out 
onto the highway the car just shut off, all the electricaly stuff, 
radio, lights, etc... stayed on but I couldn't get the car to start. 
I went back to see if anythinf was leaking, fell off, what have you 
but everything seemed fine no smell, nothing. So I tired maybe six 
times, on the seventh the car beagan to shake and the last and 8th 
time it started fine, it would shake a few times when we slowed down 
but never died at all. What could have caused this?


Thanks 
Darryl
5898
>>>>>>>>>>>
At one point in my ownership, my car would sometimes just shut off all by 
itself.  turned out to be a combination between a couple loose fuses and relays 
and the wiring to the ignition resistors was poor.

your case actually sounds more like a fuel problem, and we have heard this 
story so many times before.  try filling your gas tank up and i bet the problem 
will go away.  what happens is over time the pickup hose in the tank gets 
cracked or starts to collapse and once the gas goes down below the crack, you 
start sucking air, which will make the car 1: not start, if at all, and 2: if it 
does start, will run 'shakey'. 

you need to open the fuel pump access cover and replace everything in the 
tank if you have not done so.  i bet your pickup hose is either deteriorated or 
really soft and collapsing.

Andy


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