Hey guys I was driving to work this morning and i hit this bump then my car died. my gauges all went to 0, my Tachometer went immediately went to 0 but my speedo was still working, i tried gassing the car and it had no power when the car's speed went to 0 everything died so i rolled it to the side of the road and restarted it, the car ran. Can anybody tell me what just happened here. oh and no engine check light.

 

Maybe your ignitor is going bad. Dis the tach ever just jump randomly before this happened?

 

nope.....

i was driving one time and my car died too ....its not the alternator is it?

 

My car did the same exact thing on Sunday. It scared the crap outta me. But it was just the rotor coming loose in the dizzy. Sometimes that little screw gets loose after time. Check that out.

 

It's either your ignitor or the distributor rotor button. Make sure that is screwed on tightly/correctly. This has happened to me a couple of times. nothign to freak about.

 

hmmmm

 

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i had the same prob with my old motor that the screw in the dizzy that always got loose but my car didnt die right away it slowly died out

 

so its the rotor?? where is the screw anyways?? this is the first time its happened to me and iw as like what the ****??

 

take the distributor cap off and you will see the rotor. It will be obvious if it came loose as it will just be hanging loosely or the screw will be completely off. It should have a small screw on the side of it. If you dont immediately see it, have it spin by cranking the motor until its facing you

 

just bump the motor. dont crank it. bumping means to turn the key to the start position (for a split second) until you hear it start to turn over and immediately let go of the key.

if you can just pull the rotor off, the the screw fell out. take thed dust cover off and find the screw in the dist.

 

Thanks for the advice on this i appreciate!

 

same for me about a month ago
in my case it was a main relay

 

90% of the time its your dizzy