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Gscott_80

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Cranks great, doesn't try to catch at all, no matter how long cranked for.

Key On Engine Off, no codes. Ran great all day, no starting issues. Go to restaraunt, come out....and here we are. Just left it over night. Going out to try again in a minute....

Not sure if it is lacking fuel, or lacking spark...we will find out.
Any quick suggestions on what to quickly check?

Thanks
 

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When you turn the key, does the pump prime? If not, check the impact cutoff and the computer ground.

Someone else recently had a problem with an automatic blowing fuse #10 and not starting.
 

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Is the fuel pump is priming?... listen with driver's door open for it to whine for a second or two when you turn the ignition key to ON. If that checks out, does the tachometer come off the peg when cranking? If not, the CPS may be faulty. Try cranking 3 times, coming back to ignition ON position, but not to OFF, in between cranking attempts. Does it start on one of the attempts? If so, the CID may be faulty.
 

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Yeah, fuel is fine....update... Started, brought home. No start again.....let sit for a few hours and it started fine. Due to all the rain here the last couple of days, my thoughts are that water kicked up from the road is soaking some sensor and not allowing it to start. After it sits and has time to dry, starts perfectly.

Any thoughts as to which sensors and such are down low enough to cause this?
 

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you have classic symptoms of a failing crank position sensor. most of the time when I have had one fail, there were no codes.
 

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Would it be so intermittent as this though?

every one of mine that have failed have started as intermittent and gotten worse over time - some very quickly, one much more slowly.

only one of them ever set a code - that one would at first cut out for a few seconds at a time and then work again, gradually it got so when it cut out it would take 45 minutes of cooling before it worked again.
 

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every one of mine that have failed have started as intermittent and gotten worse over time - some very quickly, one much more slowly.

only one of them ever set a code - that one would at first cut out for a few seconds at a time and then work again, gradually it got so when it cut out it would take 45 minutes of cooling before it worked again.

Thanks a lot, since I've gotta crack all this open to get to it just to check, best replace it while I'm in there.
 

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