96 GRAND AM GT SPUTTERS AND STALLS THEN GOES!

1996 ALL OTHER MAKES ALL OTHER MODELS
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KEITH.55
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MY GT RUNS GREAT AND THEN OUT OF NOWHERE IT BEGINS TO SPUTTER AND SOUNDS LIKE IT IS BACKFIRING, OR COUGHING, THROUGH THE INTAKE (?) AS IF IT WAS OUT OF TIME AND THEN IT STALLS. IT IS REALLY DIFFICULT TO GET STARTED AFTER THIS. IT ACTS LIKE IT WANTS TO GO AND WHEN IT FINALLY STARTS, IT GOES THROUGH THIS SPUTTERING AND BACKFIRING THEN DIES AGAIN. AFTER A FEW MOMENTS OF AGGRAVATION IT STARTS AND OFF IT GOES LIKE THERE WAS NEVER A PROBLEM ... DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR TO ANYONE? HAS ANYONE FOUND A SOLUTION? THANKS ... KEITH.55
Apr 24, 2007 at 7:58 PM
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2CARPRO JACK
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Any check engine light ? When it dies is it losing spark or fuel?
Apr 25, 2007 at 8:12 AM
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KEITH.55
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Hi! No ... the check engine light does not come on. It has spark, I have checked that. My era was check spark, compression, and fuel and if it didn't start, then take a piece of thousand grit sandpaper to the points, set them and it will ... I know that it generally is the same ... but it is a lot different too!~ One thing I do notice is that there is a buiildup of fuel in the pressure release on the intake manifold. Whether this is normal or not I don't know, but I wondered about the fuel filter. The thing I don't understand is that once it starts it runs great ... sometimes for 6 months ... sometimes for 2 days ... It definitely does this, almost exscusivly, in the summer ... What do you think?
Apr 25, 2007 at 6:49 PM
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