As you all recall, Charlene, my 1998 GT, refused to start after a warm shutdown Friday night, leaving me stranded in a parking lot.
A scan of DTC's today revealed nothing. No codes stored whatsoever. Just to make sure, I cleared everything, tried a restart which was unsuccessful, then re-read the codes. Again, nothing.
I plan to flatbed it to a local shop Tuesday or Wednesday; from there, it may end up hauled 40 miles north to a reputable dealership. (Or so I am told.) No mods have been done in the last year or so, and nothing underhood has been disturbed in several months. The only engine mod so far was a change of spark plug wires. I don't have a gauge that will fit the fuel rail fitting, however depressing the valve yields a nice big squirt of fuel, FWIW. And it has
7/8ths of a tank of fuel.Other notes: I don't have the equipment to measure fuel rail pressure - it could very well be a nonop fuel pump. Spark on all cylinders is present, which indicates a PATS fault is probably not the culprit. I can hear the fuel pump relay and fuel pump engage and it cranks normally.
Place your bets. I plan to have it flatbedded to a local independent shop Tuesday. So far, my cost to tow and scan for codes: $400.00. Another tow, diagnostics and repair will probably put the total figure closer to $800.00. Buying the Scantool was a good investment however from my point of view.
-JD