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1992 Buick Park Avenue

Tiny
MOGLEY
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  • 1992 BUICK PARK AVENUE
  • 6 CYL
  • FWD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 145,000 MILES
My car will just quit running. It will run fine for one day then out of the blue it is running down the road and will just die. It I will go to start it up and it will start right up just like that. Other times it will just crank over without starting, sometimes I will sit there for 20 minutes before it decides to start. When it does start it could die im 30 seconds or it may run for aday











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Sunday, March 9th, 2008 AT 10:44 AM

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Tiny
ED ARMES
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I believe you have a bad crankshaft position sensor. If you can get it to do die in your driveway, then take a hose or pail of water and pour it on the crankshaft pully area behind where the belts are. Then try to start the car. If it starts right up then the CPS is problem. This sensor starts to heat up when going bad and shorts itself out. When it cools, the car usually starts back up. The longer the problem goes on the worse it gets till it won't start.
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