Re: Help!

[Night Shadow <soltwede@privateI.com>]

Time to check your ignition system and timing belt Duffy!  Sudden cut-offs
can usually be related to the two above items!

Eric


On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Duffy Penski wrote:

> Ok here's the deal. I've got an 86 8v, it has run perfectly pretty much
> since I got it 2.75 years ago. I had some idle problems back in the day but
> thats about it. Anyways, yesterday I got in my car to go to a friend's house
> and started the car, it was idling normally and steadily, was getting ready
> to leave, and boom the car just dies. I tried to restart it to no avail,
> until the battery pretty much died. When I tried to restart it it seemed
> like it almost caught on but died immediately a couple times, but not even
> close to actually running. Today I put my charger/starter on it, and all
> that happened was the starter turned and turned, nothing else. Its been
> extremely cold here, however, the fact that it started so nicely at first
> makes me pretty sure that its not the cold start valve. When I try to start
> it and have the ignition on, the fuel pump makes its little humming noise,
> seemingly normal for a couple of seconds, so its probably not the relay, and
> it sounds like the pump is functioning properly as well.
> 
> Ok, so where do I go from here? Its extremely cold outside so I figured I'd
> come here to get a list of things to check before I start taking shit apart.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Duffy Penski
> 86 8v
> 
> 
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Eric

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91 Cabriolet (2.0 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)
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