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Ok, I have a 92 that has been sitting for a while now with a no start issue. I started having problems with it over a year ago and it would just bog down occasionally. Such as going around a corner in town and trying to accelerate and the engine rpms don't come up for five or six seconds even if the pedal is floored with the car in first gear. Then it would drive just fine for a while. Finally it bogged down while cruising down the interstate at 75. The rpms dropped down to 1000 even when my friend downshifted. He pullled over and stopped and the car idled fine but he shut it off because he didn't want to ruin anything. Then he tried starting it up after he called me and it wouldn't crank. We tried to pull start it but nothing happened when he dropped the clutch, it just kept rolling. It sat at his house for a couple of months while we tried different things on it. We double and triple checked all of the wiring and can't find anything wrong. We replaced the starter with a good one and no change. We checked out the neutral safety switch wiring and everything seemed fine there. When you turned the key to on the fuel pump would prime, and you could hear things under the hood clicking. Pretty much normal startup sounds. When you turn the key to start though, you can hear the relay on the firewall click but nothing else happens. We also made sure it wasn't siezed by spinning the motor with a socket on the crank dampener bolt and checked out the axles and clutch. Once the battery died he decided he'd had enough and gave the car to me. As we were towing it to my house he put it in 5th gear just to see what it would do and when he let off the clutch it just kept rolling smoothly along, except then he had power steering and enough juice to listen to the radio and blare the horn at me for 5 miles.
Now the car has been in my driveway for several months and I am trying to get it going again. I went out tonight and went over all of the wiring again, and again couldn't find anything amiss. I hooked up the battery charger and turned the key to on to make sure I had a good connection at the battery when the car started to buzz. I shut the key off, turned it back on and the same thing happened. I shut it off double checked that I had hooked the charger up correctly. So then I turned the key on with the charger off so I could listen for the buzzing under the hood. Finally after feeling all of the relays, engine block, heads, intake, battery, charger, etc,, the only thing I could feel vibration in was the fuel rails. Huh? So I just disconnected the battery and let it charge for 2 hours and when I hooked it back up, the buzz was gone.
Now I am back to square one. The car has over 200k on it. 12,000 burnoutless highway miles on the clutch, a little over 6,000 miles since the last 60k which included crank and cam sensors, and all of the problems have occured within the last 400 miles. I don't get any codes (we reset the computer, I'll try and find what the codes were before we reset it.), I have good pressure at the schrader valve (I haven't measured it, but it does hit the hood), and everything seems normal when you turn the key to on. It just won't turn over. Anyways, thanks for reading the novel on my 92 problems, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris.
Now the car has been in my driveway for several months and I am trying to get it going again. I went out tonight and went over all of the wiring again, and again couldn't find anything amiss. I hooked up the battery charger and turned the key to on to make sure I had a good connection at the battery when the car started to buzz. I shut the key off, turned it back on and the same thing happened. I shut it off double checked that I had hooked the charger up correctly. So then I turned the key on with the charger off so I could listen for the buzzing under the hood. Finally after feeling all of the relays, engine block, heads, intake, battery, charger, etc,, the only thing I could feel vibration in was the fuel rails. Huh? So I just disconnected the battery and let it charge for 2 hours and when I hooked it back up, the buzz was gone.
Now I am back to square one. The car has over 200k on it. 12,000 burnoutless highway miles on the clutch, a little over 6,000 miles since the last 60k which included crank and cam sensors, and all of the problems have occured within the last 400 miles. I don't get any codes (we reset the computer, I'll try and find what the codes were before we reset it.), I have good pressure at the schrader valve (I haven't measured it, but it does hit the hood), and everything seems normal when you turn the key to on. It just won't turn over. Anyways, thanks for reading the novel on my 92 problems, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris.
