Boosted Falcon

was driving home on freeway when car started to shake and miss fire (seemed like dirty fuel or a vac leak) then the car died!...them i manage to get the car started it went up about 30metres and died again with rapid shacking and idle pingin real high and low not reponsive to the accelorator. Had to get the car towed home and now it wont start at all. anyone with any ideas or methods to diagnosis the problem on my car, is it a common problem..links to exisiting threads of problem solving or repairs carried out with similar issues. thnks guyz

having the same symptums as mentioned above. am lead to beleive it si the fuel pump, as car has new coil pack(genuine), new leads, new spark plugs, new air filter.

Dimixr wrote:having the same symptums as mentioned above. am lead to beleive it si the fuel pump, as car has new coil pack(genuine), new leads, new spark plugs, new air filter.

mate im diein to borrow of buy a diagnostic comp well i have a list probable causes to our problem could be:
fuel pump
fuel filter
fuel relay
coil
alternator
dizzy internal or external module
tfi module

sometime the car wont kick over but when it does it might last till i try to drive it or die after a split second depending on how the car feels...lowest:P let me know how u go champ and goodluck also if i get my hand on a diagnotic comp or cable i'll letcha know be happy to plug it in for you if your a local(depend if i can find one) dun really trust the ebay ones:(

easy way to test faulty fuel pump is to wack the base of your boot (where the fuel pump sits), if it starts then its faulty. That wont work if the fuel pump is completley dead though (wont prime at all when you switch ignition on).... For the relay, theres gota be someone you know has an eseries, just swap over the relays from there one to see if works in yours.

SVT8 wrote:easy way to test faulty fuel pump is to wack the base of your boot (where the fuel pump sits), if it starts then its faulty. That wont work if the fuel pump is completley dead though (wont prime at all when you switch ignition on).... For the relay, theres gota be someone you know has an eseries, just swap over the relays from there one to see if works in yours.

Yer tried tapping it and also turning the sub on(sub sitz ontop of it):P my dad got an ea i'll get his...now are the 6cyl and 8cyl same pumps? i got a eb xr8

if its a MPEFI EA 6cyl then its the same as the V8's.

sweet thanks mates will try the relay 2nite, but the sub trick did work, but for a split second lmfao!!! to funny

ok now im stumped tock te car for a drive today
its got half a tank of fuel when i left
put it in first, accelerated slowly and i can rev it out all the way, then stoped and took off and got to 4000rpm and stept on it ( flat stick) and it chokes up and if i keep my foot down back fires, stalls,and splutters also another thing i noticed is that if i drive normaly and throw the car around a bit it will do it worse and to the point where it would turn off under light acceleration, could it be a pick up for fuel>?

after a 5 min drive ive gone from 1/2 tank to under a 1/4 tank
after speaking to a few people, thy have advised me to try a petrol treatment, as well and injector cleaner.
or could be the maf where a hose has a crack in it and under hard acceleratration the hose looses manifold pressure?

Doubt it:S sounds like you have a shortage of fuel like me, depending on your driver history, what petrol do you fill up with? last time you changed ur fuel pump and or fuel filter? if you run the tank constently empty

well just ran a bottle of fuel injector cleaner through it alnog with a full tank of 98 petrol seems to be fixed

i'll find mine out 2moz when we plug it up to the diagnostic comp

good luck
just niticed today that mine still revs up a little wiredly when being given to it in gear only sometimes but its getting better, guessing it must have just had some shit in it somewhere

Dimixr wrote:good luck
just niticed today that mine still revs up a little wiredly when being given to it in gear only sometimes but its getting better, guessing it must have just had some shit in it somewhere

thanks mate, replaced the fuel filter now its running better than ever! so rapt goodluck with finding your problem