ok: 1992 325ic
Saturday as I was pulling out of bojangles, my car sputtered and idled roughly momentarily and then died. Acted like it was out of gas (I have almost a full tank). Pushed it into the gas station parking lot across the street. after cranking it a couple times, I got her to start, idled fine, gave it some revs, idle returned to normal. Got out to shut doors and she died again. Had it towed back to my house. A couple months ago my fuel pump died, and I replaced it with a working used one. It was doing the same thing it did when my fuel pump was bad, so I went to fuel issues first. I got it to start twice since the initial die outside bojangles, but both times it would die shortly after. Since it was starting, I was ruling out spark. I wasn't hearing the fuel pump kick on, so I went ahead and picked up a walbro 255 my friend had at his shop, since he said he'd buy it back from me for his car if that wasn't the problem. Swapped it in, still nothing. checked for fuel, all is good. So I went to spark. Not getting spark at the ignition coil, couldn't check at the plugs since I didnt have a spare spark plug handy. I'm grabbing one at work today, as well as borrowing a crank position sensor test light.
recent maintenance: timing belt and water pump 3 weeks ago. spark plugs new within a year. fuel pump new, fuel filter new within past 3 months. o2 sensor replaced within past 6 months.
Aside from the CPS and plugs, any ideas on what to check next? Any help is greatly appreciated! Been borrowing my roommates mk3 golf... I want my car back!
Saturday as I was pulling out of bojangles, my car sputtered and idled roughly momentarily and then died. Acted like it was out of gas (I have almost a full tank). Pushed it into the gas station parking lot across the street. after cranking it a couple times, I got her to start, idled fine, gave it some revs, idle returned to normal. Got out to shut doors and she died again. Had it towed back to my house. A couple months ago my fuel pump died, and I replaced it with a working used one. It was doing the same thing it did when my fuel pump was bad, so I went to fuel issues first. I got it to start twice since the initial die outside bojangles, but both times it would die shortly after. Since it was starting, I was ruling out spark. I wasn't hearing the fuel pump kick on, so I went ahead and picked up a walbro 255 my friend had at his shop, since he said he'd buy it back from me for his car if that wasn't the problem. Swapped it in, still nothing. checked for fuel, all is good. So I went to spark. Not getting spark at the ignition coil, couldn't check at the plugs since I didnt have a spare spark plug handy. I'm grabbing one at work today, as well as borrowing a crank position sensor test light.
recent maintenance: timing belt and water pump 3 weeks ago. spark plugs new within a year. fuel pump new, fuel filter new within past 3 months. o2 sensor replaced within past 6 months.
Aside from the CPS and plugs, any ideas on what to check next? Any help is greatly appreciated! Been borrowing my roommates mk3 golf... I want my car back!
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