My camaro keeps running!It isnt timing.It stays running and I have to put it in 5th and let the clutch out to kill the motor then everything turns off.I was thinking it may be the ignition but it starts fine everytime i turn the key?Any ideas?

 

Year? Model? Engine?

Do the dash lights and gauges go dead when you turn the key to OFF? If not, I'd suspect the ignition cylinder or the switch on the steering column.

Does the wiring look hacked up? Was somebody messing with it?

Btw, welcome to the club.

Lou

 

Its an 89 camaro with carbed 350.All my accessories turn off like the radio and gages but my after market tach stays on with the engine?

 

Ok well after searching all day on the computer I finely found out what it was.It was my oil pressure sensor.The sensor above the oil filter.I unplugged it and it turned off.Thanks everyone!

 

That sounds a bit weird to me.... Is your alternator wired correctly? Sometimes they can "feedback" into the electrical system and keep things energized.

 

The oil pressure sensor provides backup power to the fuel pump but it shouldn't feed the ignition circuit and coil. If it does, you need to rewire it so that the coil is powered from the ignition cylinder, not that sensor.

Lou

 

Yea, it sounds like your ignition wire is staying hot the whole time, which it should only be hot when the key is in the ON position.

 

I guess I need to go over the wiring.I noticed last night the fuse for the eng ctrl 10a it not in the fuse box.The cars carburated now so Im not sure its needed.???I also plugged the oil pressure switch back in and the car turns off now?

 

Hmm, only one advice I got at this point:
park the car in front of the house, set a lounge chair in front of it, load the 12gauge. Wait for the gremlins to wake up and then blast the living sh** out of them.

No seriously, you got some gremlins.

If it happens again, grab a test light and start checking wires, which are hot and which are not. If it's your own rewire project, there is nobody else who understands it better than you at this point. So gently put: nobody can help you!

If you want to bring the car to Austin to our June monthly breakfast, we can look at it.

Lou

 

lol at this point I feel like it.The wiring is still the factory wiring,I didnt do any changes to it.The only thing I see that was done is a push start button.My friends dad original owner couldnt get it started one day and he tookit somewhere and they put it in.Well he past away so I cant ask him who did it.I dunno It works for now key word now.lol thanks

 

I would start with the pushbutton start wiring. Next I would go to the original ignition wiring.

 

As I offered: bring it to the breakfast in Austin and we can look at it.

Lou

 

I agree with dingle to start with the push button start. What part of san antonio are you on. Here is a link to oue local club www.sa3go.proboards105.com we will be having a bbq this weekend if you want to bring it by we could take a look at it for you.