# Engine dies

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-dies/56743>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** sl, saturn\
**Created:** [October 23, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-dies/56743 "2010-10-23T16:43:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![donb52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@donb52](https://community.cartalk.com/u/donb52)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-dies/56743/1 "2010-10-23T16:43:20Z")

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My 95 Saturn (100.000 mi.)bucks while driving on the road, if I press in the clutch the RPM’s drop to 0 and the engine dies. If I let out the clutch the engine starts again and sometimes will buck. If I do this again (While I’m moving) maybe a couple of times, the engine runs OK until the next time (A couple of days later).  
  
 No service light is displayed and I’ve replaced the plugs, wires, fuel filter and I used injector cleaner all with no success.  
  
 Can you tell me what this might be and how I can fix it myself?  
  
 Thanks  
  
 Don

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-dies/56743/2 "2010-10-23T18:23:03Z")

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There are a whole lot of possibilities here including but not limited to a failing gas pump, a failing igniter, a failing coil pack, a failing oxygen sensor, a failing mass airflow sensor, or a failing cam position sensor.

I’d suggest going to s good shop. This one will be tough for a novice to diagnose.