1987 Reliant 2.2 stalls exactly 5 minutes after start-up every day nearly. Only 140 K (75,000miles).

My daughters car and now I am driving it to sell it. I like it's simplicity but not the stalling and hydrocarbons on idle.

Yesterday was most extreme. It died at the 5 to 6 minute mark while I was going 80kph (50MPH). I had to wait about a minute maybe 2 to restart. It wont restart until that time. Basically it is like there is no spark at all and then all of a sudden it is fine for the rest of the day. It has never stalled in the evening after work. (YET)

The car idles a bit rough but... above idle runs great. Hydro carbons at idle only were a big problem and it barely made it through air care.

Slugglish off the line (probably normal). When you get rpm up & boot it it goes really well for a 2.2.

23MPG city and i dont nurse it.

Everything replaced nearly. No codes although it did have the radiator temp sensor code and we replaced the sensor. No vacumn leak that we can (including the last shop that couldnt find anything) find. I dont know where to look for fuel line leaks. I wanted to check the choke but I couldn't find it. My chilton's carborator doesnt look like mine. It shows two barrels and mine has one.

I put methylhydrate in the gas, used carburator cleaner in throttle body. I figure it has to be a sensor, something tells the car to shut off at same 5 to 6 minutes after first start up of the day;;;3 out of 5 days.

Heeeellllpppp please if you have insite to this dilema.

William from Vancouver...I wish I could take this car to Mexico with me Novemeber 15 as it is a great mexico car. Does anyone know if parts are cheap there? I would have replaced the Hall-effect but it was $57 and probably not the problem.

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Well...everything except the problem part!

Probably need to use a scanner to figure out where the problem is -- the dashboard flash codes aren't exhaustive and don't let you see what's going on.

Not the problem.

Hooray (again) for Chilton's error-filled books (again). Your car doesn't have a choke OR a 1bbl carburetor, it has throttle body fuel injection.

How cold is it in your area, overnight?

There are lots of K-cars running around most of Mexico, but most of them have different fuel systems than were used in North American cars (carburetors through '90, then multipoint fuel injection -- there may be some throttle body injected cars running around down there, I'm not sure.

DS

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Daniel J. Stern

NO CHOKE!!!!! Well maybe I am not good at reading manuals but this chilton's is a disappointment. it is hard to find things.

Even the computer codes arent in the index. I think I saw them in the book but I cant find them now.

I knew I was throttle body and the book is 81 to 92 models. I guess I substituted 2.2L carburetor for throttle body with out thinking.

I see what looks like my unit now...a throttle body used on a TBI system for and 88 2.2L Mine is 87 but it looks similiar anyway and I dont see an 87.

To answer you Question ... I live in Vancouver... now it is dropping to around 50 F i guess.

So since the car basically turns off ..3 out of 6 days..after 5 minutes give or take 30 seconds...for about 15 to 180 seconds....I figure it must be a sensor that is not checked by the onboard computer checker or the one at the shop I took it to.

I dont know what kind of checker they had. They charged me 60$ and cleaned the plugs, and checked some stuff also of course. They said everything was new already. (My mechanic friend had worked on it and he has a fairly basic hand held computer) that he plugs into his computer after analysing.

Under that theory all I need to know is what is temperature sensitve and would cut the engine out when it gets a bad message ... around the time when the thermastat is just kicking in..

Any ideas Daniel// William, Vancouver PS Were flying to Rincon de Guayabitos in a couple of weeks. Do you know it?

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snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (William) wrote

Bad timing sensor. My 85 would die after 15 min -- just like clockwork. Two min later it would start -- good for the rest of the day. Tested perfect when it worked. No codes ever showed up.

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