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'93 Grand Am with the 3.3L 90* v6.
prior owner of the car had the vehicle for about a year, supposedly the motor was replaced 6 months before he bought it (not sure why)
anyways, he was complaining that the car in the afternoon would die out on him while coming home from work. He stated that the first light he'd come to right after getting off the interstate the car would just die and couldn't be restarted until it about 20 min later. Car wouldn't do this in the morning on his way to work. It's about a 12-15 mile trip.
MIL was on, so he pulled codes; DTC's for a MAF and tranny PRND range - he replaced the MAF, also replaced plugs and wires, replaced the coils and ign module (coils and mod were scrapyard parts), cleaned the TB and still same prob.
Car came into my hands at this point. Free. Did some side work for him and he just signed the title over (
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Well, the next day after putting the beast in the driveway, I let the car run until full hot. After it was warm enough, the car just died - eliminated the EGR being a problem, or the TCC (still being in park and all). Very hard to restart, would just crank. If you held the throttle open part way it would attempt to fire over, and if you'd go WOT at that point it would run for a brief period very poorly. I also noticed that the coolant temp gauge was kinda high (about 3/4), even though the coolant temp felt normal to touch (hot enough you'd burn your hand holding it on the rad cap for anymore than a second, no infra temp gauge close by . . .). A friend tried running the car a bit more about a week later, but I was at work so not sure what he did. Car will not fire at all now, it just cranks. Still sounds like it has compression, and still has decent spark, and is defi getting air. No problems seen with MAF or IAC.
Any ideas where I should pick this prob back up? It's been about 8 months since I last looked at it, and I need to get it running soon, but it's got me a wee bit stumped. My fear is that she jumped time, and this is one of those motors that had the nylon inserts on the cam sprockets; not really in the mood to pull a friggin motor to fix something that stupid, y'know?
'93 Grand Am with the 3.3L 90* v6.
prior owner of the car had the vehicle for about a year, supposedly the motor was replaced 6 months before he bought it (not sure why)
anyways, he was complaining that the car in the afternoon would die out on him while coming home from work. He stated that the first light he'd come to right after getting off the interstate the car would just die and couldn't be restarted until it about 20 min later. Car wouldn't do this in the morning on his way to work. It's about a 12-15 mile trip.
MIL was on, so he pulled codes; DTC's for a MAF and tranny PRND range - he replaced the MAF, also replaced plugs and wires, replaced the coils and ign module (coils and mod were scrapyard parts), cleaned the TB and still same prob.
Car came into my hands at this point. Free. Did some side work for him and he just signed the title over (
)Well, the next day after putting the beast in the driveway, I let the car run until full hot. After it was warm enough, the car just died - eliminated the EGR being a problem, or the TCC (still being in park and all). Very hard to restart, would just crank. If you held the throttle open part way it would attempt to fire over, and if you'd go WOT at that point it would run for a brief period very poorly. I also noticed that the coolant temp gauge was kinda high (about 3/4), even though the coolant temp felt normal to touch (hot enough you'd burn your hand holding it on the rad cap for anymore than a second, no infra temp gauge close by . . .). A friend tried running the car a bit more about a week later, but I was at work so not sure what he did. Car will not fire at all now, it just cranks. Still sounds like it has compression, and still has decent spark, and is defi getting air. No problems seen with MAF or IAC.
Any ideas where I should pick this prob back up? It's been about 8 months since I last looked at it, and I need to get it running soon, but it's got me a wee bit stumped. My fear is that she jumped time, and this is one of those motors that had the nylon inserts on the cam sprockets; not really in the mood to pull a friggin motor to fix something that stupid, y'know?
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