I've had this little truck for about 10 years without any problems at all. Its always started on first bump of the starter. I had just made a 75 mile round trip and stopped at the store on my way home. When I went to leave it wouldn't start. It turns over normally but acts like its not getting any gas or spark out of the plugs. It doesn't smell flooded either. Went back in store and got a can of starting fluid. Tried several times with that and only got a couple of coughs out of it once. It seemed to fire on just once cylinder maybe 5 or 6 times and that was it. Don't know what else to try and its still sitting in the Walmart parking lot.
When you turn the car over can you hear the fuel pump whineing?
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Change your fuel filter, it may have gone it's life time and is getting to dirty to let fuel flow properly. Your fuel pump to may be getting weak, if the fuel filter is dirty the pump works harder and heats up and could be over heating the fuel pump relay too. The fuel pump relay i believe is in the glove box behind a panel that say relay, there should be (3) in there and the middle one is the fuel pump's. switch then around after you change the fuel filter and if you get a chance, check your fuel pressure at the shredder valve. Good luck and hope this help's if there is a Auto Zone around you, you can ask to use the fuel pressure gauge to see what fuel pressure you have and they'll have the step by step instructions on how to do it and takes about 5 min to do and will have the fuel filter and step by step to replace that too. Keep me posted, be glad to help.
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Try cam and/or crank sensor. If crank to cam timing isn't detected properly it'll crank all day but won't start. I had similar problem on my 2.5L V6 Avenger....drove home fine, no engine light, next morning it cranked, but wouldn't start. The crank sensor was faulty.
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check the color of your spark if it is blue your good if orange replace coil dependig on your setup and if you have 1 coild or 8 coils you many have to check each cylinder seperate just pull out spark plug replace the spark plug wire have someone try to start car and lood at color of spark i should note dont hold the wire just let it rest close by
if that is ok replace your crankshaft postion sensor as it tells the cars ecu when and to what cylinder to fire spark to faulty crankshaft postion sensors 99 percent of the time wont allow car to start or very hard starts the other 1 percent
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If there is spark out of one coil than its not the crank sensor.
does this have one coil assembly with 6 posts or are there three individual coils?
If it has three individual coils try swapping the coil that works with one that doesn't. If the one that wasn't working now works and the one that was working doesn't than you have a bad module. If the coil that was working still works and the coil that doesn't work still doesn't work than you have a bad coil.
If it has one coil with 6 posts I would replace the coil and the module. It is not uncommon for the coils to go bad and take out the module at the same time.
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When I try to start it I never have heard the fuel pump running. But then I have industrial hearing loss and cant hear high pitched sounds
I thought it might be the fuel filter but I had just made a long trip and was bucking a strong head wind. If it was the filter it would have started cutting out &or bog down. It ran fine the whole trip.
when was the last time you replaced the fuel filter, or the pump? do you keep at least a 1/4 tank of gas at all times in the vehicle? letting it go below 1/4 tank allows all the garbage to get in the pump therefor making the pump go out..
If it was the fuel pump would it have gave some sign it was going? Or would it just suddenly quit?
If it is the CPS sensor is there any way to check it? Or do I have to get a new one, install it and see if it runs?
the fuel pump is a tricky beast, sometimes you will get symptoms, and others it will just quit.... as far as the camshaft position sensor, they are cheap enough, and easy to replace.. i would just replace it.. i dont know of a test to check if it is good.. i think they run like 10- 15 dollars
The truck has the 3.9 L fuel injected V6. What could make it quit starting, have no spark or fuel, and do it suddenly with no warning or symptoms of something going wrong?
Found out it was the distributor shaft position sensor. I think that's what it's called. It's a little round plate with a little 3/8" square block on the side. It sits down under the distributor cap under the rotor. Cheap part, expensive fix!
It turns out that it was this little electronic sensor that is under the rotor in the distributor cap. I think its a sensor to tell the electronic ignition the position of the distributor timing shaft or something like that. It's a little $12 part that takes less than 5 minutes to change and it can just quit working at any time any place. I'm lucky that it didn't happen when I was 100 miles from anywhere up in the Rocky Mountain High Country.
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