Mike8675309
Registered User
O.k, this car is kicking my ask. I purchased this 1990 35th Anny car with an auto trans. Stored it for a year and now I drive it back from storage. I get to about 80 miles (10 miles from home) and the car dies and trying to start drains the battery to zero after one attempt.
I get it home and replace the battery cables. Put a big charger on it and it'll crank a few times and then stop cranking.
I can get it to start by giving it about 1/4 throttle, but it runs very rough and then dies hard.
The upshift light is not flashing while cranking. The Check engine light does not stay illuminated. During cranking it sounds real bad almost like the engine is out of time. I think it's misfiring which is working the starter hard and draining the battery down really fast.
This car was running fine for 80 miles and now it won't run. Any ideas? I've replaced the DIS as I had one on hand. I've checked all the wires and they are good.
Could a bad CAM sensor make it misfire and sound like it's dead on many cylinders?
I checked the balancer and it's fine. i may try to record what it sounds like as it's really weird. If it didn't have a timing chain I'd swear the belt broke.
Help me get this car running. I don't want to have to go get the winter beater out of storage and I'm out of ideas. Yes, it's that bad.
I get it home and replace the battery cables. Put a big charger on it and it'll crank a few times and then stop cranking.
I can get it to start by giving it about 1/4 throttle, but it runs very rough and then dies hard.
The upshift light is not flashing while cranking. The Check engine light does not stay illuminated. During cranking it sounds real bad almost like the engine is out of time. I think it's misfiring which is working the starter hard and draining the battery down really fast.
This car was running fine for 80 miles and now it won't run. Any ideas? I've replaced the DIS as I had one on hand. I've checked all the wires and they are good.
Could a bad CAM sensor make it misfire and sound like it's dead on many cylinders?
I checked the balancer and it's fine. i may try to record what it sounds like as it's really weird. If it didn't have a timing chain I'd swear the belt broke.
Help me get this car running. I don't want to have to go get the winter beater out of storage and I'm out of ideas. Yes, it's that bad.