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Need help now! Car is stalling
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:52 pm
by lspitzley
I was driving my car back up to school today when after about 15 minutes it stalled while I was driving. I put it in neutral and tried starting it multiple times but it would stall shortly after. I coasted into a driveway and popped the hood, but I could find nothing wrong. After about 2 minutes it started up and drove fine.
About a half hour later it was sputtering while I was driving and eventually stalled. I pulled onto a dirt road and kept starting it until finally it would stay on. I made it up to Mt. Pleasant with it stuttering intermittently most of the time.
Some things I observed:
The oil pressure dropped around 20 psi when idling, and occasionally when driving.
Oil level and color are good.
I washed my engine bay today, maybe I knocked something loose.
Hopefully someone can help me out because I want to drive it for the last week before my registration expires and I put it away for the winter.

Re: Need help! Car is stalling
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:05 pm
by bonnevillain
i would check fuel pressure.
Re: Need help! Car is stalling
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:16 pm
by lspitzley
That shouldn't have an effect on oil pressure though, should it? The oil pressure gets low on idle before the sputtering.
Re: Need help! Car is stalling
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:22 pm
by bonnevillain
before? no, that doesn't make much sense.
Re: Need help! Car is stalling
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:33 pm
by lspitzley
I just went out and started it up. It wasn't doing any of that for brief time I had it on, but the SES light came on. Unfortunately I don't have a scan tool. Does Autozone do scans for free? I think I remember seeing that on here somewhere.
Re: Need help! Car is stalling
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:37 pm
by bonnevillain
yeah they should.
Re: Need help! Car is stalling
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:41 pm
by lspitzley
I'll have to get out there soon then. Do you think I could have knocked something loose that would cause low fuel pressure?
Re: Need help now! Car is stalling
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:03 pm
by sco99888
sound like a crank shaft sensor or you have a bad intake manifold gasket
Re: Need help now! Car is stalling
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:19 pm
by myfirstbonnie
Get the codes read before we go any farther. The check engine light is the first thing to look at when diagnosing.
Re: Need help now! Car is stalling
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:03 pm
by harofreak00
Could be stalling because of water on the ICM or connections. I agree on having the codes read before anything else.
Re: Need help now! Car is stalling
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:50 pm
by lspitzley
Well it don't really matter to me now because I put the car away for the winter

I plan on changing the LIM gaskets sometime in the winter/spring before I get it out again, so we'll have to see if I fix it when I do that.