Car stalled today and will not restart

[combustion325ix]

Hey everyone i am new here, i was driving today home from work and stopped at my friends started my car again no problems got home to my driveway and my car stalled and now refuses to start. Fuel pump sounds fine any ideas?

[jlevie]

All that can be said about being able to hear the pump is that its motor is runng. That says nothing about whether the pump is moving fuel or whether it is developing normal pressure. The only way to tell if the pump/filter/FPR are working correctly is to check the fuel pressure at the inlet to the fuel rail (by tee'ing in a gage). As well as to ensure that there's fuel in the tank...

But before doing that you need to see if spark is present when cranking over the engine. No spar will be one, or a combination of:

1) No timing reference data to the DME
2) No power to the DME
3) Bad coil/wires/rotor/cap
4) Bad DME.

If there is spark, the next test is to check to see if the injectors are firing and whether there's normal pressure at the rail (~43psi) when cranking the engine.

[combustion325ix]

So i popped my hood adn found my coil has broken off my fender, but all is still attached and seems fine it was snowing hard last night so i was not really able to check it out, have no way of check the fuel pressure due to not having a gauge so i may have to have it towed. Which i hate casue if it wasnt -20 outside i would be out there trying to figure it out. I also swapped relays to make sure it was not a bad relay. No luck there either, I need to see what i can do about that coil getting mounted somewhere else.

[lennon]

So i popped my hood adn found my coil has broken off my fender, but all is still attached and seems fine it was snowing hard last night so i was not really able to check it out, have no way of check the fuel pressure due to not having a gauge so i may have to have it towed. Which i hate casue if it wasnt -20 outside i would be out there trying to figure it out. I also swapped relays to make sure it was not a bad relay. No luck there either, I need to see what i can do about that coil getting mounted somewhere else.

you can buy a pressure gauge for sooooo cheap at the parts store. youll probably need it again anyways if you plan on working on cars.

edit: you can buy a gauge at many other places too. youve got a lot of stuff to check out, it must suck to be where its so wintery you cant work on your car!

[combustion325ix]

Yea the winters are rough, i prolly have a gauge somewhere i just dont really have the time to tinker. I have done all my own work since i was a saab tech but. I have been in and out of the hospitals lately and that makes it rough