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Old 01-07-2016, 09:15 AM   #3
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Re: 1990 5.0 TBI wants to die after engine warms up

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Originally Posted by tacoma_man View Post
After my engine gets warmed up the Rpms bottom out and the engine dies. I've replaced my TPS sensor. I thought it could be that cause I can just put a tiny bit of pressure on my fuel pedal and it will idle just fine. It does have a bit of a miss, and I've noticed that when it rains it has a hard time starting. I have put new wires recently and it's still doing it, could it be that my distributor cap has a crack?
missing hard start when damp out would be bad wires/cap/rotor.

engine dies after warm up the ICM. bad high voltage system arcing causes the ICM to over heat.
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