240000 mi - 5.3
Wife was driving when engine stalled. No sputtering or other symptoms; just quit. She pulled over, waited a couple minutes and it fired right up with no issues and headed back to house. It stalled on her once more on 5 mi trip back home.
At the house it started right up and idled for about 3 minutes and died. Tried again although harder to start it idled for maybe a minute and died again.
1st thought was fuel filter. I changed it out. The old one was really bad. Added a jug of seafoam. Started it again and it idled for about 3 minutes and died again. I left alone for 2 days. Thought the bad filter may have caused a pump failure.
Rented a fuel pressure tester and here are my readings; cycle 53, idle 49, in gear with brake on 48, and when vacuum line from regulator disconnected about 58. There was no gas evident on or around the regulator.
Started it again and it started and idled beautifully for about 10 minutes. I got brave and decided to drive it down the road and about a 1/2 mile from the house it died again. No sputtering or other symptoms; it just shut down.
Like my wife, I sat there a couple of minutes and started it right up and went another 200 yards or so to turn around and it died again. This time there was no starting it again and had to tow it home.
I'm pretty sure the pump is weak, but I don't think that would cause the shut down issue. The problem seems to occur after it warms up or gets to operating temp.
Put a code reader on it today and all I got were PO446 Evap emission (probably clogged canister) and CO265 ABS. Don't think either of those would cause stalling.
I'm just not buying the idea it's the fuel pump. I've read too many posts with similar symptoms and replacing the pump didn't fix it.
I've heard the possibility of a bad cat converter. But wouldn't that show up on code reader?
I've heard it could be the ignition switch. Have no idea how to test that.
One post I read had almost same symptoms. Yes, he put in a fuel pump to no avail. Turned out to be wiring to the Crankshaft Position Sensor had come in contact with exhaust. When manifold heated up it sent bad messages to PCM.
I'm on the verge of paying someone to troubleshoot it. Any ideas?
Wife was driving when engine stalled. No sputtering or other symptoms; just quit. She pulled over, waited a couple minutes and it fired right up with no issues and headed back to house. It stalled on her once more on 5 mi trip back home.
At the house it started right up and idled for about 3 minutes and died. Tried again although harder to start it idled for maybe a minute and died again.
1st thought was fuel filter. I changed it out. The old one was really bad. Added a jug of seafoam. Started it again and it idled for about 3 minutes and died again. I left alone for 2 days. Thought the bad filter may have caused a pump failure.
Rented a fuel pressure tester and here are my readings; cycle 53, idle 49, in gear with brake on 48, and when vacuum line from regulator disconnected about 58. There was no gas evident on or around the regulator.
Started it again and it started and idled beautifully for about 10 minutes. I got brave and decided to drive it down the road and about a 1/2 mile from the house it died again. No sputtering or other symptoms; it just shut down.
Like my wife, I sat there a couple of minutes and started it right up and went another 200 yards or so to turn around and it died again. This time there was no starting it again and had to tow it home.
I'm pretty sure the pump is weak, but I don't think that would cause the shut down issue. The problem seems to occur after it warms up or gets to operating temp.
Put a code reader on it today and all I got were PO446 Evap emission (probably clogged canister) and CO265 ABS. Don't think either of those would cause stalling.
I'm just not buying the idea it's the fuel pump. I've read too many posts with similar symptoms and replacing the pump didn't fix it.
I've heard the possibility of a bad cat converter. But wouldn't that show up on code reader?
I've heard it could be the ignition switch. Have no idea how to test that.
One post I read had almost same symptoms. Yes, he put in a fuel pump to no avail. Turned out to be wiring to the Crankshaft Position Sensor had come in contact with exhaust. When manifold heated up it sent bad messages to PCM.
I'm on the verge of paying someone to troubleshoot it. Any ideas?
