Namamatay Makina

[seednie]

hi. needed help fast!

i was driving on my way to the office. ok, ganda ng takbo ng car. then i have to stop over to a gas station to refuel. there i have to turn the engine off. upon starting again, i noticed that my idling is dropping until i reached the parking lot. so, turned the engine off and was about to leave. curiousity, i tried re-starting the car again and it started naman but namamatay agad.

how can i resolve this problem? what would be the cause?
thanks.

[mazdamazda]

try to smell the exhaust... if there's too much gasoline - the af mixture is off.

[BlueBimmer]

smell for approx 30mins...hehe jst kiddin

[seednie]

i will try that. pero pag-start ko pa lang, hindi man tumatagal ng mga 1 sec patay agad eh.

how can i get the car running until i reach the nearest mechanic shop?

[BlueBimmer]

pls state your car make and model for easier troubleshooting

[seednie]

galant 95 SS.

a friend is speculating that it might me the alternator.........is it?

[yebo]

nope, not alternator. you said you can still start it (which means the battery is not dead), so kahit sira na alternator mo dapat umandar pa din kasi may charge ang battery. if this happened suddenly (you said ok ang takbo before you gassed up) then i suspect water in the tank, the gas station had water in its tanks and they pumped it to your car.

[seednie]

talaga?
ang sama naman nila.........mahal na nga ginagastos natin for the gasoline of our cars tapos nandadaya pa sila.


what can i do to make this running again?

[yebo]

or, sigurado ka ba gasoline kinarga sa tank mo? baka diesel?

[BlueBimmer]

or, sigurado ka ba gasoline kinarga sa tank mo? baka diesel?

nako sakit sobra sa ulo yan...

[orly_andico]

is the symptom repeatable?
kung ngayon lang yan, mahirap i-diagnose yan.

but if you get "dead engine" all the time once your engine gets hot, but things get better (makaka-start uli) if the engine has a chance to cool down... that's something else.

pag namatay ba, can you crank it again and it will start? or crank ng crank nalang siya?

ibalita mo nalang.

[yebo]

drain the tank, flush the lines, change fuel filter. then fill up with clean gasoline. reklamo mo yan sa gas station, dapat sila magpagawa ng car mo.

[BlueBimmer]

filling up with diesel on a gasoline car is one of the dumbest possible things that can happen..problema dyan malamang hindi aamin ung station since ilang oras na lumipas.

[seednie]

well, its the gas station in the intersection of edsa and mckinley st.
meron pa nga silang mga signs na nilalagay sa harap na, your car is being filled by unleaded gasoline.

also, most of the gas stations now hiwalay yung pump ng diesel sa gasoline.
usually ang sama-sama sa pump is unleaded, premium and yung velocity.
regular and diesel is from a different pump.

let's give the benefit of the doubt that they didn't pump diesel on my car.

[jim]

i go for water in your tank. marahil may halong tubig yung naikarga sa yo. malamang di rin aware yung gas station na contaminated na pala yung reservoir nila ng gasoline. i-report mo agad para di na madamay ang iba pang motorista na magpapakarga doon.

[seednie]

so, how will i remedy this problem?
drain and refill?

[zero]

naku po! magastos yan.
cleaning yata ng gas tank costs P1,500 sa mga shop.
PLUS fuel filter at ang bagong gasolina ng tsikot mo.

[theveed]

drain the tank, flush the lines, change fuel filter. then fill up with clean gasoline. reklamo mo yan sa gas station, dapat sila magpagawa ng car mo.

Same suggestion...

[orly_andico]

it might be possible to recover the contaminated gasoline.. drain it from your tank into a 5-gallon distilled drinking water container, then let it stand for a few hours. then siphon off the top into another container. the water will settle to the bottom so as long as you don't disturb the bottom 2 inches or so you should be ok.

the problem in the fuel tank is that.. the fuel pump intake is near the bottom of the fuel tank! so puro tubig nahihigop niya..

[tercel85]

kung ok ang gas mo,check the fuel filter or fuel pump,cause i think there is no enough gas supply for your carburator,kaya aandar then then namamatay uli