Long story short, car was driveing perfect, went to pump gas. 91 octane, after that check engine light came on. car was sputtering not bad but not normal, was enough to drive home. next day car wouldnt start anymore. check the check engine light codes. got all misfire in all cylinder.
change cap, rotor, ignition coil pack, spark plugs/wires, injectors, and a new dizzy. reset ECU and nunthing happen, same problem. CEL went away, but car woundnt even turn on, cranks but woudnt start. after that i decided to do a valve adjustment. after the Valve Adjustment i advance the dizzy make more sprak and fuel, the car turned on but was sputtering real bad! choking and the throttle body was like back firing. not with fire but with air, it would make a loud pop! and air would come out from it... still no CEL. Soo now im thinking fuel and timeing problem..
Motor is fully stock...........
Next step is to replace the fuel filter and redo timing!

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Any comments will help......

 

I dont think it has anything to do with timing. Are you sure you put in the correct gas? I've seen cars that required premium fuel and randomly some dumbass who doesnt pay attention puts in regular fuel and drives off afterwards. The car will drive like ****.

 

true but! even if that happen the car would still be able to drive, but like ****! this car wouldnt even stay on and cant even drive.... i feel where u coming from but i pretty sure i put the right gas....

 

i just wanna hear what HT members have to say..








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Throw some octane booster into it, shake up the tank and give it a go. Let us know if that makes any difference. Sounds like it could be bad gas.

 

This definitely sounds like a timing problem, bad gas would not cause a problem like this (unless of course you put diesel into the gas tank).

Check both ign timing and mechanical timing.

 

x2 timing

also there's a slight chance your ecu malfunctioning but that's rare. if you have access to a spare one, it's worth a try.

 

went to get a new fuel filter and sum octane booster, replace it and pour the NOS octane booster into the tank. was really happy hoping it would solve the problem. NOPE!!!! same motha fwakin problem!! any else guys?

 

did you fill the tank up all the way? its funny how it started acting up right after a gas fill up. i would take a fuel sample from your tank into a clear plastic bottle. smell it and look at it after it settles. bad fuel will give you these kinds of problems. i dont think timing has to do anything with it.

 

i was almost on Empty. i pumped it up half tank. then there goes the check engine light and the sputtering. iono i guess ill try that but how would i know if its good gas or not? i mean even if it was bad gas it would still be able to drive but like real bad, but the car wouldnt even start no more.

 

If you really want to check your timing then just take off your valve cover and turn your crank over to TDC. That should eliminate somethings

 

check your spark plug wires, distributor cap & rotor.

 

Maybe your Fuel pump sucked up some stuff. Is your fuel pump priming when you turn to on? What kind of gas did you pump? Where did you pump? ARE YOU SURE YOU PUMPED GAS? Are you getting fuel to your injectors? These are the questions I would like to know.

 

It really sounds like the timing belt may have skipped a tooth or jumped more than one tooth. Check it. Im fairly certain that that is your problem. The fact that it happened just after you filled up may just be an odd coinsidence. But I would check the timing belt before you throw anymore money into random parts to try to fix it. If you look at all the posts people are either saying fuel, timing, or both. You have yet to check the timing so do it.

 

Fuel pump primes. fuel comes threw the fuel filter and shoots out of the injectors.. but i havent checked the timing. But ill do the TDC mechanic timing. but ignition timing i dnt have a gun. ill get back to you guys if it worksss!

 

Update: Check my TDC Seams fine to me didnt jump no tooth. so iono what to do now. last now im just goin to get all my Gas out and pump new gas. i have no other clue.

heres the pics

 

I did all the possible things you could of think of.

Cap, rotor, ignition coil pack, fuel filter, injector, valve adjustment, diffrent dizzy,
octane booster, advanceing the dizzy, check ground,

Havent switch ECU and Main Relay. possible chance of the ECU but very rare for it to happen but im left with no other option. Main Relay only controls the fuel pump, ECU, and dizzy but there working fine.

Anything else guys?

 

I knew it had nothing to do with timing. Advancing the dizzy wouldnt help either. I say try out a new ECU.

 

I know this might not be it, but check for a racoon in the exhaust or anything..

 

LMFAO!! thats a good one made me laugh! haahaha but ill check that too you never know anything helps will doo that sir!

 

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. i think the problem is that.. i dont know. sorry fellow ht member. i wish i knew.

 

My car did this twice. First time, it just shut off on me. My timing jumped and was 180 degrees off. After installing new timing belt and setting the timing, it still wouldn't start. I found out I installed my distributor wrong.

2nd time, just like you, I stopped for gas. After getting gas, it drove like crap. Sputtered, had no power. My timing jumped a tooth and the timing belt was shredded. It was half the width it was supposed to be. A rock or something got inside and tore up my belt and grinded one of the gears.

You said you replaced your distributor. Make sure you installed it correct. Double check to make sure your timing isn't off.

 

i only replace the dizzy with it started to sputter and threw me that misfire code. but then it went away after i reset the ECU. the dizzy is correct. and my timing is not off theres a picture up there showing that im dead on TDC..

 

My Gasoline is clear white! diesel Gasoline color is yellow and red. so i definitely dnt have diesel gas in my car.. even if it was 87 not 91 the car would still run, but its not even turning on, octane boosted didnt help...... Anything else??

 

If you resetted your CEL when the car was off, it will not throw a CEL again until the motor actually runs a few cycles. So even if there was any CEL it would remain unknown since your car wont start.