# 1978 Cadillac Seville - Motor Stalls Out - No Warning **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** cadillac, seville\ **Created:** [August 12, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1978-cadillac-seville-motor-stalls-out-no-warning/34963 "2009-08-12T20:00:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tommier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@tommier](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tommier)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1978-cadillac-seville-motor-stalls-out-no-warning/34963/1 "2009-08-12T20:00:07Z")
1978 Cadillac Seville ? Motor Stalling Out The auto repair shop replaced both electric fuel pumps, fuel filter, spark plug wires, distributor cap, rotor 7 EGR value in hopes of fixing the problem with no avail the car still continues to stall out and stop. Symptoms: driving usually (but not always as it stalls out in driving around town too) on the freeway at a speed about 60 miles an hour usually while I am not accelerating , I feel the motor hesitate and sometimes it catches itself and not does stop and other times without warning it stalls and stops. I could drive it for 3 or 4 days without any symptoms and then the next 3 days I drive it, it either stops on me or acts like it will stop on me at any moment. It has, if I continue to try and turn the motor over ? started back up. This is a beautiful and car that I have driven for 31 years. It has a rebuilt motor in it with about 82,000 miles on (the rebuilt is not that great, but?) Any ideas? I don?t want to send off the junk yard ? I have had it too long. ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1978-cadillac-seville-motor-stalls-out-no-warning/34963/2 "2009-08-12T21:58:37Z")
A faulty ignition module in the distributor, or the wires leading to the pickup coil in the distributor can cause these symtoms. Tester ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1978-cadillac-seville-motor-stalls-out-no-warning/34963/3 "2009-08-12T22:35:01Z")
I’ll second this call–particularly thewires leading to the pickup coil in the distributor. I had the exact same problem as the original post with my 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass. A new pickup coil solved the problem. ---
**Author:** ![tommier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@tommier](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tommier)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1978-cadillac-seville-motor-stalls-out-no-warning/34963/4 "2009-08-13T00:16:13Z")
Thank you it will be the next part to be replaced.