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Intermittent start, do over. 200

posted by  Glass Casket on  Thu Jul 6 04:32 CST 2006
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Let me try this again...I can read the BB, but have troubel posting...sorry abou the previous blank posting.

I've been looking for a problem similar to mine in the recent posts, but haven't found anything.

This car is 120 miles away at college, being driven by my daughter.

1985 245 with auto trans. The problem began with the car starting up, then dying after running for a few seconds. 25 AMP fuse is good and contacts are clean, as is it's connection to the battery. Plugs have spark. She claimed she couldn't hear the fuel pump running with ignition switched 'ON', so I figured it must be the fuel pump relay. I drove down last weekend with a variety of replacement parts and tools, plugged in a known good FP relay and the car started up and ran. Opened the relay I'd just pulled and found a solder joint that looked as though it had been hot enough to discolor some of the circuit board, or remnants of rosin, so I cleaned that joint up, and tried the 'old' FP relay. Again the car started and ran just fine. I left it idling while I checked fluids, etc. Shut it down started up. Problem fixed.

Next day, the car started and ran several times. Then, no start. Daughter checked fuses (all) again, plugged in the spare FP relay I'd left, but no joy.

So, I'm looking at another 240 mile round trip to try and figure it out. My request here is for suggestions. Sometimes when I'm too close to a problem, I don't see the obvious. Did I miss something simple in my first effort? What to look for next, what replacement parts I should take?

Thanks in advance for the help, and I will follow up with the solution.






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