suburban stalling, intermittant, will restart

[bikehead]

My Suburban has had an intermittant stalling problem for about 2 months.
I have replaced the fuel filter, fuel pump relay, cap, rotor, plugs,
coil, crank pos sensor. Checked the battery connections. Also did some
other 100k miles maint listed in the manual.

I finally found the stalling problem with my 1997 suburban. It was the
fuel pump relay socket. The connecton was bad, which caused resistive
heating, which would transfer into the realy and cause it to fail. I
replace the relay 6 times over a year. They kept failing.

I finally removed the relay box from the lower housing, turned it over
to see if there was a loose connection or a bad crimp or something.
Well, it turns out, the socket connector that holds the relay, had a bad
connection. Poor spring contact. It was the orange wire, but could be the gray wire also. This caused the relay pin to get hot, which caused the relay to fail. Also the increased heat caused the relay
socket housing to melt. This makes repair of that socket impossible.
Also the heat corroded the pins.

My options are install a new after market socket on top of the old
socket, soldering the pins to the wires. Or, install a remote relay,
running the wires back under and splicing them to the relay circuit
wires.

I purchased a Bosch SPDT 40 amp relay, which I plan to mount on the
inner fender, splicing in place of the old relay, I plan to use silver
solder splices, covering them with heat shrink tubing. I did the splices under the relay box, and covered the wires in split looming.

This relay is the same type used for fog lights. Heavy duty, Should
handle the much lighter load of the fuel pump.

So if you are having stalling problems. Check the relay socket, Also
replace the relay. They are about 20 dollars.

The problem is SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!
John