New to Forums,"Problem with Festiva Start up!!

[donreggeaton]

hello peep well im new to this forums coming here to see if theres anyone could help me, i got this festiva 88 i bought from this guy 2 days ago, the car was working fine, until yesterday i started up and it was good i took it out my garage and then it shut down on me.. i try starting it up but nop.. i took the thing were the carburetor is and it was wet and it smell alot of gas, i let it kool down thinking maybe i over gas it on the all the tries i try on starting it up but it wont start up, it cranks good but wont start, have anyone had this problem before or does any one have an idea what could be?

thanks..

first ford car..sorry...

[FistyFetiva]

Originally Posted by donreggeaton

hello peep well im new to this forums coming here to see if theres anyone could help me, i got this festiva 88 i bought from this guy 2 days ago, the car was working fine, until yesterday i started up and it was good i took it out my garage and then it shut down on me.. i try starting it up but nop.. i took the thing were the carburetor is and it was wet and it smell alot of gas, i let it kool down thinking maybe i over gas it on the all the tries i try on starting it up but it wont start up, it cranks good but wont start, have anyone had this problem before or does any one have an idea what could be?

thanks..

first ford car..sorry...

I have had similar problems with another car, 1982 SAAB 900. When the problem showed up the car had 300k on it. It was the hall effect in the distributor. SAAB wanted $400.00 for the plate. I found that VW makes the same hall effect but on a different plate. Drilled the rivets off and installed it in the SAAB... $90.00 bucks later it was running fine.

So if this has electronic ignition you may have a bad hall effect sensor in the distributor. They are a bit on the spendy side as you can see, so I would get someone who has a scope to check it. If you feel brave you might try taking an old spark plug and see how much spark you have.

Another possibility is the fuel management system may not be allowing the fuel pump to run. There should be a relay somewhere under the hood or dash. Most of the fuel pumps can't be heard. I am not sure of the 88 but our 93 the pump is in the tank. Chilton prints a good book with very good trouble shooting guides. Another book company is Haynes.