crank but no start ford mustang
Asked by Anthony May 18, 2009 at 04:40 PM about the 1992 Ford Mustang
Question type: Maintenance & Repair
Have a 92 lx 5.0l mustang that will not start. There is spark, the fuel pump has just been replaced. Thought that was the problem. Have heard it may be an ecm issue. The battery is fine. The engine cranks but won't catch. Any advice would be great.
4 Answers
do you have fuel pressure at the schrader valve? have you checked the inertia switch and changed the fuel filter? fuel pump relay?
it might be the module.common with fords when they get older.its usally located under the distributor.i had that happen to me with a few of my fords,cheap & easy to fix
yea...check fuel pressure and spark. Those moduals give alot of trouble. check spark too. Listen to find out if the pump is running first, when check pressure. Check those things FIRST
TranzitionZone answered 5 years ago
Same car, same issue.. Had spark, but thought it was weak. Flicker of test light at -12V coil terminal eased concerns about TFI & PIP problems. Could smell fuel at exhaust pipe indicating ok fuel pump & injectors but checked pressure at rail anyway: 42 psig w/pump running to 37-38 off. Fine. Cleaned slag off electrodes in distributor cap, scraped rotor edge to bright metal, resistance of coil wire to distributor was fine (~5000 ohms), spark plugs fine, set gap to specs. Could smell fuel when removing plugs, also indicating ok fuel delivery. Resistance on primary side of coil ok at ~0.4 ohms, but secondary resistance was 18,500 on digital meter and 20,500 on an analog. Cobbled up an air gap tester (1 inch notch in a board with 1/2" 'ears', tapped 1/4-20 and screwed in 2 pieces of 1/4" all-thread.) No spark until about 1/8" gap, and when it finally sparked steadily the gap turned out to be exactly the spark plug gap. That was direct from the coil terminal to negative post of battery in humid air with pointy electrodes. By the the time that weak spark went through the coil wire, across the distributor, and down the plug wire into the compressed fuel-air mixture, there wasn't enough energy left to ignite the fire. Checked references and estimate the coil was putting out less than 5000 volts. New Blue Streak coil had same resistance for primary, 8650 on secondary, and threw a spark about an inch long. Pony gets up and goes like she's supposed to now!