

| Subject: | Re: 85 1.9L died on highway, won't start |
| From: | Zoran Mladen |
| Date: | Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:17:35 -0700 |
How do you know the fuel pressure is good? Did you put a pressure gauge on it? You either lost fuel or spark. A bad fuel pump relay will do this - had it happen to me. To check spark, remove one spark plug wire from the dist cap and hodl it so there is a small gap between the cap and the wire. Have someone crank it. You will see spark if there is one. Z Aerowolf <aerowolf@GMAIL.COM> wrote: Hey, everyone, my 85 1.9L died on the highway, and I can't get it to restart. I'm rather confused as to what the cause might be. (though I also, just after this occurred, got the replacement AFM that my boyfriend had ordered from Bus Depot, and swapped it out because I was a fool and thought that it was the AFM more than anything else.) The fuel pressure is good. I'm not sure about the timing (and I don't have a timing light available). What's the best way to check the spark? I also just replaced the battery -- the one I had wasn't the right one for the van, and I'd drained it while trying to restart it. I've run a couple of attempted-start cycles on the new one, but I've not worn it down. What kinds of things have caused other folks' vans to die on the roadway? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping.
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