Alright guys I need a brain trust here,
My g/f's 2002 Cavi is giving me issues. She left my house last night around 10. She was fairly low on gas (like one bar left). She went to Hucks near my house to fill up with no problems. She filled up and was turning left out of Hucks when her car died on her turning onto Allen (I checked and she did get unleaded and not diesel). She called me and I went over there. First thing I did was push her off the road into the apartment parking lot. When you try to start the car it will start and run normal for a few seconds around 1,100 RPM. Then it suddenly falls to around 500 struggles and dies. It was doing this over and over last night. I was curious if it was a battery/alternator issue so I hooked my jumpers up to her car with my truck running. It was still doing the same thing. I called my dad who asked me if I could hear the fuel pump prime when the key is "on". And I could hear the pump flutter, but then I also noticed another noise. Under the intake around the fuel rail I could hear an odd noise. It also made the same noise when you turned the key "off". It sounds like a hissing or bubbling noise and sometimes it makes a funny small clank noise. For a second I thought it sounded like a small dinosaur under there. There was a small green cap that my dad told me to take off to see if there is fuel pressure in the lines. Between a lack of communication issues between my g/f and I and the darkness that didn't let me see anything, I couldn't really test anything. I just gave up because I was getting cold. This morning I had my g/f go out with me to her car to see if anything "reset" itself over night. Well her car just turns over now and doesn't even try to start like it was last night. It turns over good, so its not the battery. I'm guessing a fuel pump issue, but I'm open to suggestions and ideas.