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Turbo Coupe Not Starting?

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93tealstang

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My g/f left my house the other night in the TC and the car just shut off. I pushed it back to my house and tried "popping the clutch" but couldn't get it started. The car cranks but won't fire up. I don't smell any fuel after cranking it which leaves me to believe something in the fuel system failed. I hear the fuel pump prime but can't tell if the motor is getting any fuel. Where do I start? I was thinking maybe it's the regulator so I was going to try and put a 5.0 fuel regulator on temporarily to see if that's it. If that isn't it, I guess I'll just have it towed to my local garage. I don't know much about these turbo 2.3's.
 

mr_woodster

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its just like a normal 2.3. If its cranking, has compression, fuel and spark, it Should run.
You can check the pressure at the fuel rail with a gauge on teh schrader vavle.
(cheap! ive seen bycicle gauges work for this !)
It could very well be the tfi...check for spark!
all else fails, check for compression
 
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myboyhasa66

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fuses

it happenned to me one day and it was a fault of fuses. probably not your problem but ya know
 
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Like woodster said, check for spark.

My TFI module failed today.

Cruising at 45mph and the engine just died, changed the TFI and all is well.
 
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