97 Taurus stalls when driving

[ssummerlin]

I was driving to work the other morning when my Taurus died. All of the electricals worked but the car would not restart. After a few minutes I was able to get the car started. This happend a few more times that same morning. I drove the car that afternoon to my mechanic and had no problems (30 miles). It has since stalled on the mechanic as well. He says it is probably the fuel pump but is not certain. Has this happened to anyone else and what was the problem.

[rivguy]

while I've only seen this once I have had a bad PCM relay on a taurus - and a few times I've found bad connections to the pcm relay

[ssummerlin]

Where is the PCM relay located. Thanks for your help

[rivguy]

the relay in in the underhood fuse/relay box - but not sure of the exact position in the box

[drling]

My '98 has had a few die and no start problems all connected to the Power Distribution Box.

First was an arcing connection on the fuel pump maxi fuse. Every once in a while the car would just die (usually on my wife), 15 minutes later (after the tow truck arrived) the car would start. After a fuel pump, inertia switch and pump relay one day I just pulled out the fuel pump relay maxi fuse, one leg was burned and pitted - intermittant arcing feeding back to the ECU through the connection on the relay, this shut off the pump. Change the fuse and no problems for 2 years.

The next was just this weekend, the car was getting hard to start. When it happened to me I noticed that the Check Engine light was blinking rapidly when the ingnition was on and there was no pump noise when the key was first turned on to ingnition. Another Power Distribution Box problem! The Low Speed Cooling Fan Relay power leg was cooked! Again, arcing feeding back to the ECU shuting off the fuel pump! Clean the connection (R&R wire) and a new relay and no problems!

CHECK ALL OF THE FUSES AND RELAY CONNECTIONS IN THE POWER DISTRIBUTION BOX YEARLY!