car dies for no reason!!??
 

what would cause the coil to stop sparking? dont matter if the car is cold or hot but it will just die and a few min. later it will start and run fine. i was thinking it may be the tfi but im not sure.

Coil? (maybe)
 

aar0s,
I'm not saying this is your problem but '89 Mustang was doing the same thing. It would run fine for a given period of time and then just die.

Once I drove it on a weekend trip, it was fine all weekend and then, about 2 miles from home, it died. The interval before it started cutting out began to shorten very quickly. (like within the next day or two)

Eventually, it would only run for a mile or two until finally, it wouldn't even start!

I couldn't figure out what the problem was 'cause it would never dublicate when I wanted it to. (so I could fix it.)
The last time (when the car wouldn't start) I popped open the hood and noticed a burned wire smell. My nose went right to the ignition coil and I noticed it was burnt (by the indication of a white chalky ring around it!

I replaced the coil; Problem solved!

Like I said, the coil might not be your problem, but it's worth looking into and easy to do.
Good luck,
Phil

thanks phil but i thought that it might be the coil so i changed it and the coil wire then i thought that it may be a cloged fuel filter and changed it.

hmm
 

Could be fuel pump?
When the car dies right after, turn the key over and make sure the fuel pump turns on by listening to the fuel pump motor, dont start the car.
Could be the distributor going bad, not sure how to test that :)

If the coil is not sparking then it can be a ground.... possably the one by the ecu...

later

i tried the fuel pump suggestion and the pump is still priming after it dies and i changed the gray thingie on the distributor (cant remember the name of it) and it wasnt the problem. ill check the ground but after that im at a loss. when it dies i can put a plug in the coil wire and it wont spark thats why i think that its a electical problem and not fuel. is it possible that i got a bad coil from O'riley's?

oh
 

When My MSD A6 died, i got no spark with the holding the plug apart from the coil. I hooked my old ignition up and it started right away. You running a aftermarket ignition?

no its a stock ignition. where is the ecu?

I had a silmiliar problem when i had some bad gas (water in it) and had to change the fuel filter 3 times

how do you know its not sparking ? have you pulled the coil wire and tried to start it ? do you have a fuel pressure gauge on it ?

I always do the maintence stuff first replace fuel filter again and tfi

TFI moduale is a good place to start


good luck

my ground problem was by the ecu stumped the crap out of me. The ecu is located by the passanger side kick pannel but i doubt that is ur problem unless someone was messing around with it or the car is really really rusty near there....


later