Will not stay running?

Tiny
SCOTTISH
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  • 1993 CHEVROLET SILVERADO
My truck listed above 2500, starts and runs for 5 minutes then stalls if you try to start it back up it wont start, but if you wait 10 minutes it will fire and do it again. Please if you can help me I would appreciate it.
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 AT 2:38 PM

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Tiny
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This sounds like one of two main issues. First is a fuel pump issue. Next is a crank sensor issue.

The fuel pump may be weak and have to cool down in order to supply enough pressure. So we need to start with checking fuel pressure when this happens.

Here are a couple guides that help with this:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-check-fuel-system-pressure-and-regulator

https://youtu.be/dCjmRL3p4Cs

Next the crank sensor on this vehicle is part of the distributor and I have seen a number of these fail like this and basically just putting a distributor in them fixes it. Here is a guide that talks about this even though your sensor is slightly different:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/symptoms-of-a-bad-crankshaft-sensor

When this stalls and does not restart, we need to pull a plug and find out if you have spark. If you don't I would replace the distributor and retest.

Please run through this material and let us know what questions you have.

Thanks
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