So I left in summer for vacation and school and my teener was running just fine. I cleaned out the tank, replaced everything, and tuned the engine. It was doing just fine.

So it seems my teener luck has gone downhill. A windstorm wrapped our canopy garage thing around the teener, scraping and scratching up the car. And when my dad tried to start it up to take it to the body shop, it wont hold an idle. It starts to fire and dies. He can pump it and give it gas to get it to run at about 2 -3K rpm, but then dies. He has to 'rev the piss out of it' to keep it running, and it's backfiring sometimes. It sounds like fuel starvation, but I just cleaned the gas tank, and put in a new filter.

Any ideas? It had only sat since I left, nothing done to it.

head temp sensor failure??

Would a heat temp sensor just go out while the car was sitting? I checked it this summer when I was troubleshooting everything and it seems it was working.

Is it colder now?

Sometimes electronics have intermittent failures that show up when colder or hotter. I usta use a can of spray chiller on circuit board components to shock the offending component into not working.

Check the sensor. It has a different rated output depending on the temperature. I would recommend removing it and checking the performance at different temperatures. Requires a volt ohm meter, a freezer and a heat source. Mom or dads digital thermometer is a plus too.

Ken

Did the wind storm come with rain? Did your engine stuff get wet? You could have a number of things, start simple.

if it was the storm we just had a few weeks ago it rained like crazy. perhaps condensation in the dist cap? have your pop use a water displacement product inside of the cap and see it it helps. is your raintray in place?

k

Yeah, this would probably be easier if I was back home to work on it, instead of here in Indiana. Thanks for the tips, I'll pass them on to my dad and see what happens.