Thread: Cars starts then within seconds DIES!

Did SE's get the fuel pump resistor guys?

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

Did SE's get the fuel pump resistor guys?

Don't know, but was thinking the same thing as soon as I saw the title.

Originally Posted by kygtp

Sounds like the fuel pump resistor has gone bad. It is in the passanger side fender well. If I remember correctly, it controls the low speed of the fuel pump, so when it goes out, the car will only run for a few secs, then shut off.

I have hot wired my fuel pump to run on high speed full time and I have had it that way for several years now with no issues.

I will try and go out later and see which pins I jumped in the fuse box under the hood to get it to run that way.

To get it home or figure out if it's the resistor, in the underhood fuse box, pull the high speed fuel pump relay and bend pin 85 to bypass the resistor. I ran mine for only a week waiting for the new fuel pump resistor to arrive. A month later, the fuel pump died so I don't recommend running it in high speed mode all the time. It's there for a reason.

Thank you to everyone again!

Well our home town mechanic couldnt do anything more to figure it out, so we took it to a Graff garage to get it looked at. I will post if they figure anything out.

As for Whitehead: Its not her keys because she has used both her keys multiple times since shes had it and they never gave her problems.

As for Kygtp: Our mechanic and step father is thinking it is someting electrical not really having to do with hte fuel pump or anything along those lines, becuase if I remember correctly she got some of that stuff replaced not to long ago.

If they pull the cover off the engine bay fuse cover and there is no mention of a high speed fuel pump relay or the relay isn't there. Then that means SE's didn't have that. If not.. the most likely culprit is the maf sensor.

Figure this out yet? Does the SE have a high speed fuel pump relay?