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Sent to Car Experts February 14, 2006 5:47 p.m.

I have 1988 chev. beratta. 2.8 v6 man.trans. car will start and run fine forawhile then die wont start .ive changed computer and all eng. elect. compt. had digatal dash rebuilt. car started ran fine for 2 hours. when i try to start it it turns over and trys to start but wont. has 45 psi fuel press. and spark.

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February 14, 2006 6:23 p.m. (35 minutes and 28 seconds later)

Have you checked the compression yet, to see if the timing has jumped?

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Sent February 14, 2006 6:43 p.m. (20 minutes and 6 seconds later)

yes . ive had the car 6 months.it ran for 2 days and died. sat for a couple ,andwouldnot start.i crank and crank for hours . then it started ran for a couple of days and died.put it in a shop they changed the computer and all eng. elect. componit. ihad the dash rebuilt. it started ran for 2hours shut it off and wont start again

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February 14, 2006 7:11 p.m. (28 minutes and 45 seconds later)

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Sent February 14, 2006 8:32 p.m. (1 hour and 20 minutes later)

I hooked a pressure guage to the eng. and left it for2 days.press.good.pulled all plugs and ck for spark.all good.the shop where its at ck the inj.pulse.good new.air filter.ck eng.light was on the code was one flash pause 3 flash only code that came up.i have a gm repair man. and went stepby step ,through the troubleshooting of ,eng rotates but wont start.eng. starts but dies. eng stalls.eng.elect. system and fuel system. ive ck and reck. all systems. comp is good.ck.all connections of wireing harness fues pannel and ing switch and wireing.

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February 14, 2006 8:52 p.m. (20 minutes and 16 seconds later)

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Sent February 14, 2006 10:06 p.m. (1 hour and 14 minutes later)

all thats been ck and recked the car will run on occaion.some times for acouple of days.then it willfire and die .not startfor weeks and start .some times it will start the next day. ive been to dearlship they dont know . it in a shop ive know the owner 30 years .this is going to be something off the wall

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February 15, 2006 5:35 a.m. (7 hours and 28 minutes later)

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