Well lately my beaters' been havin a bit of difficulty starting. Its a 89dx with 120,xxx miles that I just picked up a couple months ago. When I got it I did the basic tune up stuff, cap, rotor, plugs, etc...

Anyways, lately when I go to start it, the car will start and then just die. So i'll try to give it a little rev when it starts and it revs up once after if fires up and then it'll just die. But then sometimes it will start after a few try's and an occasional rev. This has been randomly happening and was just wondering if any of you guys had any ideas???

BTW--I've actually tried to pull the ecu fuse after several attempts and she'll fire right up afterwards like nothing ever happend, which leaves me scratchin my head. No CEL, or anything either.

 

maybe your injectors are going out. But that still wouldn't explain the ecu fuse.

 

test the ignitor in the dist. i had a similiar problem and it was the ignitor.

 

Id check for high resistance at the ignition switch.

 

thanks for suggestions, i will test them out today. Keep em coming, just incase...

 

LOL its you ignitor bitch

 

Something very similar happens on my 89 HF with 180K. It takes more turns than normal to start and when it does, it's barely running and then dies. I let it sit for a couple of seconds and then start it again and it's fine. This only happens once every 4 months or so.

I think it comes down to fuel delivery. Vaperlock? Fuel pump not building enough pressure? It has never stranded me so I don't worry about it.

 

its your main relay probably, here is the fix, its pretty easy and costs nothing, so its worth a try. http://www.crxsi.com/resources...relay/

 

thanks guys, yeah it doenst ever not start so i'm not too worried about it, but i just wanted to address it before it got worse. Oh, and Josh---E.A.D.