QuestionI ran out of gas in my 1989 Chrysler New Yorker. Fuel Injected. Now I am unable to restart. I have put gas in the auto, but it still will not start. What should I do?
AnswerHere are a couple of ideas:
1. The crud in the bottom of the tank might have been drawn into the pump and gotten clogged up in the fuel filter. You'll find the filter in front of the tank, under the car, near the fuel lines that run along the inside of the channel on the passenger side of the body. You might want to replace the filter just in case that happened. But:
2. It could be that your "no start" is unrelated to running out of fuel. If that were the case, the best way to figure out why is to readout the fault codes that are stored in the engine controller which may tell us what it has seen to explain why the engine won't start. To do this:take your ignition key and go: "off-on-off-on-off-on" within 5 seconds, and leave it in the 'on' position (which is where the key would be if the engine were running normally, not all the way to the starter cranking position). Then notice for the "check engine" light to begin to flash, pause, flash, pause, etc. Count the number of flashes before each pause, write down or make a mental note of the numbers of flashes. The last two sets of flashes will be 5 in each. Then pair up the numbers as they came out to form two-digit numbers; thus the last set of numbers will form a 55, which is the code for "end of readout".
Either write me back, or go to www.allpar.com/fix/codes.html
for a list of the meaning of any other codes that come out. You should repeat the readout to make sure you have the numbers of flashes exactly correct so as not to get a false code. The numbers should be in serial order.
That will give us a start on analyzing your no start situation. Let me know what you learn.
Roland
