HELP! Wifes car is being a whore

[ripper]

95gt auto bone stock. Friggin car runs fine. I did rotor, cap, plugs last fall. Problem is sometimes it wont start. Cranks but wont start. It even cut out on her a couple times. If it wont start and I wait like 1/2 hour or so it starts right up. WTF?

 

[95-stang]

First thing to test is easy: spark. Next time it wont fire, have an old working plug handy, pull any lead off, insert plug, earth it to the block, get an accomplice to crank it, if it sparks its time to look further.
If it sparks use something like Easy Start, its for starting stubborn Diesels, spray some arond the intake, if it fires, you dont have any fuel there.

 

[Magic]

If it is a spark issue, then most likely the culprit is the coil or module.

 

[ripper]

Of course NOW it starts every time. Im sure it will happen again I just have to wait. Mean time im gonna do the manuel code check thing Ryclef taught me and see if I get any. Probubly wont cause I dont have a cel but maybe it has one stored.

 

[95-stang]

Its starting because it knows your on the case.

 

[xsoutherngun89x]

lmao, nothing really to add here. just wanted to say i didnt read the titile all the way before i jumped in. lol. i thought it was gonna be a different kinda thread, hahaha. could be gettin a random piece of trash in the injectors every now and then though, just a thought

 

[95 svt cobra]

hey man, check the timing chain i had this problem and all it was a worn timing chain. fairly easy fix

 

[95opal]

Sounds like either the TFI module or PIP sensor..

 

[Javi]

sounds like the timing to me

 

[pettybird]

TFI module.


cuts out, restarts when cooler
won't start when heat soaked


those are THE symptoms for TFI modules.


I had one fail at mid-ohio! that sucked!

 

[94 DropTop]

maybe the stator in the dist. I heard of those going out and being an intermittent prob. and they are only like 10 bucks

 

[9psi 98]

maybe the stator in the dist. I heard of those going out and being an intermittent prob. and they are only like 10 bucks

+1 This should solve your problem. It's the little module on your distributor, they cause problems like you're having when they go bad.

 

[FiveLiterGT]

I would say distributor unless it keeps starting.

I just went thru it myself.

Changing cap rotor plugs is never a fix to a no start problem.

 

[9psi 98]

I would say distributor unless it keeps starting.

I just went thru it myself.

Changing cap rotor plugs is never a fix to a no start problem.

Very true, which is where the module comes in. Other than that module and the cap and rotor, the distributor is nothing more than a spinning shaft inside of a housing. Unless the distributor got loose and turned and threw the timing off somehow, it's not your problem.

 

[J.T.]

Woah I thought this thread was about your wife being a whore. Thats why I checked it out.

 

[ripper]

Welp I pulled the cap and there was alot of corrosion on the rotar and cap contacts. I guess thats from living on the ocean. So I used some 0000 steel wool and cleaned it up. Started right up. I hope that was the fix.

 

[topless95]

check to see if there is any black gel(the insulating material) running down from behind the module.

 

[9psi 98]

Welp I pulled the cap and there was alot of corrosion on the rotar and cap contacts. I guess thats from living on the ocean. So I used some 0000 steel wool and cleaned it up. Started right up. I hope that was the fix.

If there's that much corrosion inside the cap, then you might as well check the other electronic parts of the distributor. They are probably all full of junk as well.