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Hello all, I am new to this forum and have joined in hope for some enlightenment on my minivan problem. I have searched and searched to no avail and am asking for help at this point.
I recently purchased a 1995 Plymouth voyager 3.0 motor. It had 165,000 miles on it. It runs like a top when it runs. I am currently getting around 22 miles to the gallon. I purchased it from original owner. It even came with all maintenance records.
I bought it Knowing that it had an issue with dying for no reason. When it does die while driving, you can start it back up again and drive away. Sometimes it's not so easy. On occasion it will start for 3-5 seconds and then die again. This can go on for many tries and all a sudden it will up and run and you are good to go. Sometimes while cruising at freeway speeds it will start cutting out. It seems as if the ignition is stopping for a second or two. Sometimes you can hold the throttle at the same spot and it will continue to cut out until you make an adjustment to the throttle position. Sometimes to this will work for a moment and other times it will just die. For the most part you can pull off the road, hit the key and it will fire and you're good to go for another 2, 5, 10 minutes and sometimes for an hour or so. I took it on about a 700 mile trip last weekend and it quit on us many times on the way up and the way back. However when we arrived at our location and drove it around for 2 days and a half tank of fuel it ran just fine. It's really frustrating and I am trying all I can think to fix it. Parts I've changed to correct the issue are as follows:
Fuel pressure regulator.
Throttle position sensor.
Map sensor.
Distributor which is also the crank position sensor, if I've read correctly.
Plug wires.
Fuel filter.
And lastly the coil. All parts were from the junkyard because I cannot afford or justify throwing all new parts at it until I know it's absolutely bad. Aside from the ignition coil.
Through all of the 2000 miles I have put on this van it has never thrown an engine code until today, after changing the coil. The cutting out was happening this morning on the way into town to pickup the new coil as well as the way home. Once I changed the coil and went for a ride the cutting out seems to have changed to a chug (which its done before for moments here and there, comes and goes) but now all a sudden I'm getting a check engine light. I did the key trick to read the codes and it came back with 35 engine code which appears to be related to the "cooling fan relay". I was hoping for a code more related to my symptoms :-(.
I'm open to any and all suggestions. This is a clean van that I picked up for a good price. When it runs properly it's really enjoyable to drive and run around in. I'm sorry for the small book but I wanted to list everything I could think to answer any additional questions up front.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I recently purchased a 1995 Plymouth voyager 3.0 motor. It had 165,000 miles on it. It runs like a top when it runs. I am currently getting around 22 miles to the gallon. I purchased it from original owner. It even came with all maintenance records.
I bought it Knowing that it had an issue with dying for no reason. When it does die while driving, you can start it back up again and drive away. Sometimes it's not so easy. On occasion it will start for 3-5 seconds and then die again. This can go on for many tries and all a sudden it will up and run and you are good to go. Sometimes while cruising at freeway speeds it will start cutting out. It seems as if the ignition is stopping for a second or two. Sometimes you can hold the throttle at the same spot and it will continue to cut out until you make an adjustment to the throttle position. Sometimes to this will work for a moment and other times it will just die. For the most part you can pull off the road, hit the key and it will fire and you're good to go for another 2, 5, 10 minutes and sometimes for an hour or so. I took it on about a 700 mile trip last weekend and it quit on us many times on the way up and the way back. However when we arrived at our location and drove it around for 2 days and a half tank of fuel it ran just fine. It's really frustrating and I am trying all I can think to fix it. Parts I've changed to correct the issue are as follows:
Fuel pressure regulator.
Throttle position sensor.
Map sensor.
Distributor which is also the crank position sensor, if I've read correctly.
Plug wires.
Fuel filter.
And lastly the coil. All parts were from the junkyard because I cannot afford or justify throwing all new parts at it until I know it's absolutely bad. Aside from the ignition coil.
Through all of the 2000 miles I have put on this van it has never thrown an engine code until today, after changing the coil. The cutting out was happening this morning on the way into town to pickup the new coil as well as the way home. Once I changed the coil and went for a ride the cutting out seems to have changed to a chug (which its done before for moments here and there, comes and goes) but now all a sudden I'm getting a check engine light. I did the key trick to read the codes and it came back with 35 engine code which appears to be related to the "cooling fan relay". I was hoping for a code more related to my symptoms :-(.
I'm open to any and all suggestions. This is a clean van that I picked up for a good price. When it runs properly it's really enjoyable to drive and run around in. I'm sorry for the small book but I wanted to list everything I could think to answer any additional questions up front.
Thanks in advance for your help!
