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Old Feb 19, 2009 | 12:59 PM
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back fires then dies

my fd just keeps dieing
after about 15 min. the car just turns off,,,
but if i give it gas the car back fires and then turns off....
its not overheating... i dont think 85c is as hot as it gets.
any ideas?
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Old Feb 19, 2009 | 09:51 PM
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I had a customer who had a car that would turn off after about 15 mins from a cold start. It was when teh fans were coming on, it was caused by a wire in the front harness grounding out. Will the car start back up when hot and run another 15 mins then cut off again?

Have you replaced the plugs?
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Old Feb 20, 2009 | 12:55 PM
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the car will start back up,, if it didn't flood from just dieing...
wiring was a big problem with this car.. so i will have to look back over all my wires..
i'm going to do a compression test to make sure that the motor is not blown... the car just seems that the idle is high like 2k and it back fires, (small puffing backfire)
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