Argosy24 wrote:
ac bill wrote:
Even with the TBI engine not running, you should be able to look down inside the carb, (air cleaner off) and when moving the throttle lever on the side, still see gas squirting down into the carb.
TBI (throttle body injection) doesn't have a carb it has a throttle body. A throttle body doesn't have an accelerator pump which gives the shot of gas when moving the throttle linkage.
That is all irrelevant because he stated that he sprayed starting fluid down the intake and it still stalled, so there is not a fuel delivery problem. The problem
is electrical.
I'm also not sure how we got off on to the alternator/battery tangent. If there is enough battery to turn the engine over and start, there is enough battery to keep it running. When the battery goes dead, the first thing dies is the fuel pump. The engine will spit as it leans out, and eventually die. This takes quite a while before the battery will be dead enough to not have enough pressure for the computer to compensate. This is all gradual process. Once it is too dead to run the fuel pump, there is no way it will come remotely close to cranking over. Alternator failure was a common problem in my old Pontiac Transport, so I became very familiar with the symptoms as one tries to limp home and not quite make it. If it starts and runs, and then just dies, its not the battery or alternator. Since he did not mention a check engine light, my guess would be the ignition coil.
