1998 Chevrolet Truck engine cutting off

Tiny
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Hello to all I have a 1998 gmc van that runs grate except out of the blue it will cut off in about 10 to 15 min and I notice the fuel gage would max out when this happen and will half to sit up over night before it will start back up. I have plug in my car md and all I get is an error oh yes and the fuel pump come on and runs for about 3 second every time the switch in turn on. And there is a box underneath the hood over to the right there are pluges on this box that I un pluge all of them one at a time and sprayed them with wd 40 sense it is nun conductive it dose a good jub for cleaning contacts and also the fuse & relay box. I works on tv's I am in the electronics field. Thanks you for your help William
Saturday, June 15th, 2013 AT 5:39 PM

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Tiny
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What you need to do is check to see if the fuel pressure is good and there is spark to the plugs when the car won't start. One will most likely be missing. Then you will know which circuit to focus on. NOTE: Even though the fuel pump runs doesn't mean it has proper fuel pressure. If you have both spark and proper fuel pressure, you need to check the injectors to see if they are working properly.
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Saturday, June 15th, 2013 AT 6:34 PM
Tiny
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Hello guys again I appreciate the wonderful help I got from all of you. This is what I done hook up a fuel pressure gage and it maintain around 55 psi all the time and used a
neon bulb to montor the firing on spark plug wires. And this time it seem like it was going to run for every so I got tired of baby sitting it. So I turn it off and came back about
two hours later. Now it wont start finally the test came out to be it is not firing so guys do you think it's module in the distributor or were would you start first. Thanks again William
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Sunday, June 16th, 2013 AT 8:19 PM
Tiny
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Hi,

If you have't fixed this yet, yes it could be the module in the distributor.
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Thursday, August 8th, 2013 AT 6:57 PM

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