I got in my car to leave this morning, cranked it and it sputtered and died and would not start back. It has been raining all night, but I have never had an issue with rain or moisture. The car has been running fine up until I parked it at my house last night. It has sputtered before on cranking, but I could just pump the pedal and it would idle fine then. I ended up running the battery down some, so I left it with a trickle charger on it.


I know to check for fuel and spark, but it was raining this morning and didnt have time before my ride showed up. I have a truck but it does me no good when I keep it at my shop lol.

Any ideas or anything simple that I may need to check first? Any help would be appreciated.

 

You know... I'm starting to sound like a broken record here, but check the ignition switch. That's what my car used to do when my switch was all gummed up. It'd fire up, then die. No problems with that since I cleaned it.

Also, you probably know this already, but all of my trying to start the engine attempts would flood the engine out, so I learned that little trick (for a -SE car) about pulling the blue connector for the fuel pump off the trailing coil to shut the pump off. Crank till it sputters, then reconnect it and fire it up again.

 

I did almost the same thing but I pull the fuse 2nd from the front on the right side of the fuse block. I crank it and then put the fuse in and it starts. I have no idea if it's bad for the ECU but I used to have to do it a lot. Then I put an MSD on the leading coils and it seems to start nicely.

Pulling the fuse is a nice anti theft device as well.

 

Ive never really had any flooding problems with any of my 7's, except my first one after installing a new engine.

So I got home and pulled the blue plug off my coil, cranked and cranked until it sputtered. Then I plugged it back up it back up and it tried to stay running but died. I repeated this 2 more times and it finally started running.

I ran it down the road and had a lil stall at around 6000 RPM. So I dont know if Im having a break down in fire or a fuel issue. Never had any igniter issue, what would I expect from that?
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Check to make sure you have spark at Leading and Trailing, if its a leading ignitor it would run similar to your description. Do you have stock fuel injection?

 

Yeah its still stock FI.