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Re: Fuel Issue Posted by Dan [Email] (#2459) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Dan) on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:19:31 In Reply to: Re: Fuel Issue, Jeff, Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:30 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I'd have to say that a car stalling when hot and then not starting again is very different than the car just not starting again when warmed up. That latter is almost always due to fuel leak down caused by a bad check valve back at the pump. With the car stalling and then not starting I would probably look at fuel as well but I'd check a number of things before saying the fuel is just vaporizing. Putting a cooling fan on the fuel lines sounds crazy, doesn't it? Something else is going on and even if such a procedure actually helped the situation it would never be much more than a bandaid. I've had pumps that after running for a while will stop...the car then stalls and won't start again for a while. Eventually the car won't start at all. I've also had a few 99s that had bad gas tanks. They would stall out and not start again as well. Letting the thing sit has alowed the goo on the puck up screen for the pump to loosen up or something and then the car would run again. When it ran, though, it was always running lean and eventually burnt a valve or two. It also kept the fuel from running at the proper pressures and I suppose opened up the possibilty of vapor lock-like scenarios.
The mechanic may be great and may eventually fix the problem but to suggest a cooling fan on the fuel lines is beyond silly IMO. Notice how when the car was in the shop he found that normal things that can go wrong had gone wrong? Very possible that as the car ran, it may have been doing so through bad connections or a worn relay. As the things heated up, the connection to the fuel pump would have gotten weaker, shutting it off. As things cooled down, the connection was back...just a thought.
dan
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