Scott Long
Registered User
I'm in Mississippi and my car is with my wife in Virginia.
She called me today and said the car stalled out on her while she was going to the store. After 3 or 4 tries it started again. She didn't have to wait like 15 minutes or anything.
It did this once, she said it felt like it was going to stall a few times, and it was hard to start twice.
She also said it feels like it's bucking but I don't know if she knows if it's misfiring, or just running like crap.
The cam sensor went out in 2005 when we were in VA and I put a new cam sensor on it when it came in, in the parking lot of advance auto parts.
The crank sensor is new right before last years shootout, I put a new BHJ on the car and a crank sensor. I think the DIS has been replaced about 4-5 years ago with one from auto zone. The coil pack is original. Plus and wires were done at the same time as the BHJ, plugs are autolite non plats, 2 heat ranges colder (forget the number). Obviously I can't really do much about it since I'm stuck in Mississippi and can not leave. And my wife doesn't trust the car to drive it here to bring it to me since she doesn't want to be stranded in the middle of nowhere. Can't blame her there.
I'm thinking it may be the DIS module if the bucking she feels is the DIS dropping cylinders, but I can't be for sure because I obviously can't drive it. Normally I'd have a better description of whats wrong, but I'm going by what my wife told me on the phone.
Anyone else think it sounds like a DIS? She said it normally runs fine and even ran dead even with a new 350Z from a stop light race. She said he didn't pull an inch and she even spun bad on the launch so that made me happy to hear the SC was running strong. But now today I hear about this.
My tool chest is in my mom's garage in Michigan, so it's not like I can even talk to my father in-law and tell him how to remove the DIS to take it and get it tested. He's not a mechanical guy, but I think if I had the tools and could tell him it's two clips and 4 5.5mm bolts, he could figure it out. But none the less I may be able to have one of the Hampton Roads SC guys come take a look and swap a DIS module for me.
Oh and the ingnition switch inside the steering column is new as of Feb 2007.
She called me today and said the car stalled out on her while she was going to the store. After 3 or 4 tries it started again. She didn't have to wait like 15 minutes or anything.
It did this once, she said it felt like it was going to stall a few times, and it was hard to start twice.
She also said it feels like it's bucking but I don't know if she knows if it's misfiring, or just running like crap.
The cam sensor went out in 2005 when we were in VA and I put a new cam sensor on it when it came in, in the parking lot of advance auto parts.
The crank sensor is new right before last years shootout, I put a new BHJ on the car and a crank sensor. I think the DIS has been replaced about 4-5 years ago with one from auto zone. The coil pack is original. Plus and wires were done at the same time as the BHJ, plugs are autolite non plats, 2 heat ranges colder (forget the number). Obviously I can't really do much about it since I'm stuck in Mississippi and can not leave. And my wife doesn't trust the car to drive it here to bring it to me since she doesn't want to be stranded in the middle of nowhere. Can't blame her there.
I'm thinking it may be the DIS module if the bucking she feels is the DIS dropping cylinders, but I can't be for sure because I obviously can't drive it. Normally I'd have a better description of whats wrong, but I'm going by what my wife told me on the phone.
Anyone else think it sounds like a DIS? She said it normally runs fine and even ran dead even with a new 350Z from a stop light race. She said he didn't pull an inch and she even spun bad on the launch so that made me happy to hear the SC was running strong. But now today I hear about this.
My tool chest is in my mom's garage in Michigan, so it's not like I can even talk to my father in-law and tell him how to remove the DIS to take it and get it tested. He's not a mechanical guy, but I think if I had the tools and could tell him it's two clips and 4 5.5mm bolts, he could figure it out. But none the less I may be able to have one of the Hampton Roads SC guys come take a look and swap a DIS module for me.
Oh and the ingnition switch inside the steering column is new as of Feb 2007.
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