No Spark....Sometimes At Least
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No Spark....Sometimes At Least
Hey Guys and Gals!
Have an interesting issue with the 88 GTA though, some of you may find it interesting.
In April I drove the car to Alabama and back and it ran GREAT, rolled over 100,000 on the trip. The only problem we had was with the VATS, of course it sometimes doesn't like to allow the car to start even though the chip is in the key. Recently though we have had a new problem.
Every once in a while the car will just not start, I hear the fuel pump come on but nothing except for cranking over at the usual rate. I will then usually just drive the Ram to wherever I need to go them the next day or even once I get home to diagnose the problem but then the thing starts on the FIRST crank.
The GTA has always started on the first crank since I got it at 75,000. The big problem was back in October I was coming back home after gassing up and it just shut itself off. I attempted to start it after waiting 5 minutes, then sprayed starting fluid and still not even a pop. So I called for a tow. I went to finally get around to working on the car today since it was a nice 55 degrees, low and behold after a $80 tow it starts on the first crank and runs like a champ due to the premium fuel that was nearly $4 a gallon when it went in.
Any thoughts? My major thought is the VATS is disabling spark but I may be wrong on how VATS works.
Have an interesting issue with the 88 GTA though, some of you may find it interesting.
In April I drove the car to Alabama and back and it ran GREAT, rolled over 100,000 on the trip. The only problem we had was with the VATS, of course it sometimes doesn't like to allow the car to start even though the chip is in the key. Recently though we have had a new problem.
Every once in a while the car will just not start, I hear the fuel pump come on but nothing except for cranking over at the usual rate. I will then usually just drive the Ram to wherever I need to go them the next day or even once I get home to diagnose the problem but then the thing starts on the FIRST crank.
The GTA has always started on the first crank since I got it at 75,000. The big problem was back in October I was coming back home after gassing up and it just shut itself off. I attempted to start it after waiting 5 minutes, then sprayed starting fluid and still not even a pop. So I called for a tow. I went to finally get around to working on the car today since it was a nice 55 degrees, low and behold after a $80 tow it starts on the first crank and runs like a champ due to the premium fuel that was nearly $4 a gallon when it went in.
Any thoughts? My major thought is the VATS is disabling spark but I may be wrong on how VATS works.
