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Old Aug 12, 2006 | 07:09 PM
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I get off at an exit and my car stalls, wtf right? I put her in neutral and start it again, goes for about half a second and i just barely have the momentum to coast into the local mcdonalds... so I let it sit for about 10 minutes and start it up. It starts!!! start to leave and it stalls again only this time on the main road in my area, great. I put it in neutral, rev it to about 3k and neutral drop it so i can get somewhere and sit. This entire time, my fuel guage is reading 1/4 tank. So I threw some gas in it despite that and it runs fine now, for the time being. Has anybody else had this happen? and if so, what do i do?! should i just adjust the needle on the guage or what? I am lost.........
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Old Aug 12, 2006 | 10:54 PM
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grouding issues??? what year is it?(age and what not.. i have had some friends where some grounds have come loose... idk, i could be wrong
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 09:18 AM
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that's exactly what mine is doing. i still haven't figured it out. i'm gettin a buzz and pop noise coming from the relay cluster under the hood, i'm hoping it's just losing ground there. i'll find out tomorrow hopefully.
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 09:34 AM
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that's exactly what mine is doing. i still haven't figured it out. i'm gettin a buzz and pop noise coming from the relay cluster under the hood, i'm hoping it's just losing ground there. i'll find out tomorrow hopefully.

had the same thing happen, turned out my problem was the battery had only 6 volts...
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the car is a 2000 , my battery is a brand new optima yellow top and it reads about 14 volts when i am driving on my stock voltmeter, the guy had everything installed before i bought it, (the procharger, new fuel pump, new injectors, etc.) so i have no reason to think its a fault in the installation, so you think it may be a grounding issue possibly in the fuse block?
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Originally Posted by boondiggys
had the same thing happen, turned out my problem was the battery had only 6 volts...
you had the buzzing and popping relay?
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by squall01
you had the buzzing and popping relay?
yea i also had a bad ground to the cylinder head.
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