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When trying to start my car. it die's ,it takes me a least over 10 starts to get it going. feels like gas is not being pump or something. i've press the gas pedal down to the floor, even pump it, it rev's for a 10th of a second and then it just drops and dies. sometimes it just starts up on the first start and rev's really high, but most of he time nothing at all .

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Those Saturns are very bad about this issue and is normally the crank sensor. It is a pain in the neck to get to. It has one bolt holding it on to the back of the engine/trans. I use a long extension with a swivel socket because it is buried in the back. If you have a tachometer on the car you can observe the r.p.m.'s while cranking. If while you are cranking the rpm guage doesn't go up a little then the crank sensor is bad and the vehicle wont start. I have literally changed about 30 of them.

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