View Single Post
Old 07-13-2011, 05:51 AM   #1
BSPCE
AF Newbie
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Mcallen, Texas
Posts: 3
Thanks: 1
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
98 Malibu LS won't start

Hi everyone, let me start off by apologizing if i have accidentally created a similar thread, don't mean to spam or anything. Anyway, i've been having trouble with my car lately and it's getting to be a real pain. I drive the car around town almost every day and have never had any trouble with it, all of a sudden i make a trip down to another city (50 mile drive) and as soon as i get there, the car stalls out on the highway, i put it in Neutral and started it while driving at 80mph, the car ran. As soon as i stepped on the gas, i can feel the car shift to 2nd gear and the engine stalls out, i had the car towed home. Now it's sitting in the driveway and i put an error code reader on it and got the EVAP Purge valve error, after reading some of the forums i went ahead and bought a new one and replaced it. Now the car won't start, i replaced the spark plugs, oil, oil filter, spark plug cables and no luck. I've decided to troubleshoot it and started with the spark plugs, the spark plugs are working properly, the fuel pump primes and i got good pressure on the camshaft but the car absolutely refuses to start, it'll crank and run the battery down, but it will not start. After reading these forums i think it might be the theft system, but i don't want to cut the yellow wire until i start the engine first, any ideas? Thanks in advance and FYI the car is a 98 Malibu LS, 3.1 engine and has 140K miles on it.
BSPCE is offline   Reply With Quote