Re: 5KS starts, runs, dies???

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

"Tom Serrago" <tom1007@netzero.com> wrote:

>My 85 5KS Avant just started to act strange today. This AM it started fine
>as always, 2 miles from my house she just dies. I coast over on to the
>shoulder, try to restart, just cranks. I check under the hood, everything
>looks fine, nothing out of the ordinary. After maybe 5 minutes I crank her
>again, starts right up.

I had the same problem with my 90, and there were three possibilities for me:
-dirt in fuel filter clogging fuel feed
-fuel pump about to die
-fuel pump relay intermittent.

It turned out to be the relay in my case, a few taps and it started right up.

HTH,

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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