So my 2004 GT (6 port) with 109k on the original engine broke down the other morning. Was driving along with no issues, when all of a sudden the engine started "bogging down" like it had some bad fuel, or some trash in the fuel. I pulled over where it sputtered out and died. I tried starting it back up, but had no luck. It would crank and crank, but no start... Luckily, it was off the road and in a parking spot at a local drug store.
I ended up calling a friend for a ride, and left my car there for a few hours. When my next door neighbor got home, we rode back up to where my car was with the intention of towing it back to my house, but I decided to jump in it and see of it would start... and it DID! But only running like crap. (My analogy of how bad it was running, was that if it were a V8, it was like it was running on only 1 cylinder!) Had the power of a kitten... But since we were only about a block away from my house, I decided to putt putt the thing down the road barley running just to get it to the house.
I kept thinking along the way that this was probably a bad idea, and that I was likely doing more damage to the engine trying to run it this way, but I made it to my driveway at my house, and there it died as soon as I took my foot off of the gas... never to start up again.
So here it sits, 109k miles and broken down. About a year and a half ago, (about 20k miles ago) it did the same thing, and broke down the same way, with the same symptoms... where I incorrectly diagnosed it as a bad fuel pump. So after buying and installing the fuel pump, it wasn't until I replaced the spark plugs, wires, and coil packs, that I managed to get her running again. And it's been running great ever since, that is, up until the other morning.
So what do you guys think; should I do the right thing, and have it towed to the dealer and have a compression test done, and see if the engine has enough life left in it to be worth fixing? Or should I gamble, and buy some spark plugs, wires, and coil packs and hope that's the fix?
BTW, does the car have to be running to have the compression test done? And is this compression test like normal compression tests that regular piston engine mechanics can do, or do I need to have a rotary specialist do the test?
Thanks in advance for any input on the matter!
Ed
I ended up calling a friend for a ride, and left my car there for a few hours. When my next door neighbor got home, we rode back up to where my car was with the intention of towing it back to my house, but I decided to jump in it and see of it would start... and it DID! But only running like crap. (My analogy of how bad it was running, was that if it were a V8, it was like it was running on only 1 cylinder!) Had the power of a kitten... But since we were only about a block away from my house, I decided to putt putt the thing down the road barley running just to get it to the house.
I kept thinking along the way that this was probably a bad idea, and that I was likely doing more damage to the engine trying to run it this way, but I made it to my driveway at my house, and there it died as soon as I took my foot off of the gas... never to start up again.
So here it sits, 109k miles and broken down. About a year and a half ago, (about 20k miles ago) it did the same thing, and broke down the same way, with the same symptoms... where I incorrectly diagnosed it as a bad fuel pump. So after buying and installing the fuel pump, it wasn't until I replaced the spark plugs, wires, and coil packs, that I managed to get her running again. And it's been running great ever since, that is, up until the other morning.
So what do you guys think; should I do the right thing, and have it towed to the dealer and have a compression test done, and see if the engine has enough life left in it to be worth fixing? Or should I gamble, and buy some spark plugs, wires, and coil packs and hope that's the fix?
BTW, does the car have to be running to have the compression test done? And is this compression test like normal compression tests that regular piston engine mechanics can do, or do I need to have a rotary specialist do the test?
Thanks in advance for any input on the matter!
Ed
109k miles and down for the count...
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