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Okay here is the problem. I bought a car knowing that it wasn't running. I had a suspicion that it was the relay. I bought the car, brought it home, took a relay out a car I have that is just sitting around, and it worked... for about a month and a half. I am driving home one day and swerve (a quick right, a quick left) to miss a beach ball bouncing down the road. After the swerve the car dies. I immediately reach down feel the relay (yeah I hadn't put it back together yet) and it is really hot. I let it sit there for a little bit, the relay cools down, and it starts up. I ended up having it towed cause I was too far from my house to really put a lot faith into it.
So today I get a new relay, put it in, and after about 30 minutes it got really hot as well. Here are the symptoms with the new relay. It starts normally on one try, but any pressure placed on the accelerator or putting the car into drive kills the engine. During all of this today there was a gallon (in the red) of gas in the tank. (There is now more gas in it now)
So what is making the relays so hot? Is it the fuel pump going out and pulling to much power?
A note the car I have "sitting around" is the same model, just a year newer ('91). So just about any part I need I think I would have it.
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