My car died... (Fixt!)
Coming from my girls house headed to work this morning... car starts acting wierd. Feels like its running rich. Under anything but low throttle she starts to become erratic. Lots of backfire out the exhaust when I tried to speed up. Eventually as I'm coming up the hill, car start bucking like a prized bull. Loud POP and smoke backfire then she stumbles. Dead.
I look like an idiot on the side of 74 broke down. Phone dies, can't make it to work while waiting.
What I tried:
The fuel pump primes every time i put the key in the on position. The car cranks wonderfully.
Pulling the dizzy cap and checking... Cleaned the rotor off, cleaned the connections. Put back together and start - Nothing
Pulled Spark Plug Wires to see if there was something loose - Nothing
Pulled the Fuel Pump fuse, cranked for a few to maybe clear gas in the cylinders - Nothing
The only thing I can think of is my FPR randomly Died? Or somehow I am getting no spark all of a sudden. I checked my fuel pressure with no squeezing of the vac hose and its at 46psi which is not right. I squeezed the hose and the pressure didn't move. (Although I forgot to try it on the other regulator... I did this on the one on the right now that I think about it).
The car is still on the highway and I'm finding a way to get it to my garage here this evening to see what else I can do. I planned switching out a different distributor and cap to see if that is causing the issues. I haven't had an oppurtunity to check out the plugs as I had no tools when I was stranded.
I'm assuming its a fuel delivery issue or my rotor and cap needs to be replaced... I have a nismo fpr on my DET sitting in the garage. I'm going to try and trade it out with this one and maybe see if that will help. It's definitely rich.
Let me know what yall think.
Fixed the Problem!!!! Broken Connection Post Ignitor but before Coil
I look like an idiot on the side of 74 broke down. Phone dies, can't make it to work while waiting.
What I tried:
The fuel pump primes every time i put the key in the on position. The car cranks wonderfully.
Pulling the dizzy cap and checking... Cleaned the rotor off, cleaned the connections. Put back together and start - Nothing
Pulled Spark Plug Wires to see if there was something loose - Nothing
Pulled the Fuel Pump fuse, cranked for a few to maybe clear gas in the cylinders - Nothing
The only thing I can think of is my FPR randomly Died? Or somehow I am getting no spark all of a sudden. I checked my fuel pressure with no squeezing of the vac hose and its at 46psi which is not right. I squeezed the hose and the pressure didn't move. (Although I forgot to try it on the other regulator... I did this on the one on the right now that I think about it).
The car is still on the highway and I'm finding a way to get it to my garage here this evening to see what else I can do. I planned switching out a different distributor and cap to see if that is causing the issues. I haven't had an oppurtunity to check out the plugs as I had no tools when I was stranded.
I'm assuming its a fuel delivery issue or my rotor and cap needs to be replaced... I have a nismo fpr on my DET sitting in the garage. I'm going to try and trade it out with this one and maybe see if that will help. It's definitely rich.
Let me know what yall think.
Fixed the Problem!!!! Broken Connection Post Ignitor but before Coil
Last edited by Meeners
on 2011-09-07
at 13-31-27.
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