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Engine wont stay running

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stangg01

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Engine wont stay running. It starts up immediately, but dies immediately unless I give it gas.

Any ideas?
 
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Car has a sulfurish smell when I run the engine with my foot on the gas peddle to keep it from stalling.
 
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I'm going to clean the IAC. Hopefully thats the problem.
 

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My car was doing that last week a little bit then it ended up not even starting up at all. It ended up being my fuel pump which is pretty strange seeing as I only have 8400 miles on my car.
 

DBMSTNG

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check all the hoses and electrical connections on the engine.
 
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I replaced my fuel filter about 12,000 miles ago.
I agree it might be the problem though.
Thanks
 
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I checked all the connections as methodically as I could. Nothing obvious.
Thanks
 
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DerekStangGT

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check all vaccum hoses for cuts/rips as well as tight connections. then go to the IAC valve. after that my next guess would have been fuel filter, but you just replaced it....
 
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IAC was the culprit.

Thanks everyone!!!
 

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stangg01 said:
IAC was the culprit.

Thanks everyone!!!
Click to expand...

were you able to clean it out or did you just replace it?
 
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LOL, yeah, I just replaced mine like 2 weeks ago and the one I took off looked brand new. There must be a flaw in the design or something cause it seems that alot of people on here have the same problem alot!
 

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make sure you dont get an autozone one...
 
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I cleaned it with carb cleaner(B12-Chemtool)
 
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