My son’s 1998 Pontiac Sunfire(200K miles) will die in the road after the motor warms up. Any ideas.
We will need a little more information. Does the engine restart immediately? If it doesn’t, is there spark at a substituted plug? If spark is available, will the engine catch with a shot of starting fluid into the throttle body?
We need this information to differentiate between a fuel pump problem and an ignition problem. Come back to us.
The first two suspects with a GM that displays this problem are the ignition module or the crankshaft position sensor. Either of these components can fail when they get hot causing the engine to shut down.
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It does restart after it cools down.
thanks, how do I test for this?