New Guy Needs Help With 2000 LTC Starting Problem
Dear LVC Community:
Greetings to you all. My name is Neil and this is my first post!
I'm having a starting problem on my 2000 Lincoln Town Car (with 60,000 miles). Here are the details:
When I turn the key to start the car, the car will just keep cranking and cranking, and never fire at all--not even once.
So I thought it might be the fuel pump, so here's what I did: got some starting fluid and shot it in the throttle body. Initially it didn't work. Same problem, just perpetual cranking with no firing or running at all. Then, I repeated the process with more starting fluid and the car fired right up--but the car kept running (it didn't stall after a few seconds--which I thought it would do if it was the fuel pump, right?). So I went and drove the car for 15 minutes and everything was normal while driving it. Incidentally, I put in a brand new Die Hard, so I'm thinking to myself: "Great, problem solved." That is, until I got back in the driveway and shut the car off and immediately tried to restart it: same exact problem as before.
So, here's the strange thing: I let the car cool off and repeated the same procedure: shot starting fluid in the throttle body. This time before I took off on a test drive and got the car up to operating tempature I thought I'd test restarting it cold: to my surprise, I could start the car, turn it off, then restart it with no problem--before the car was up to operating temperature, in fact I started it like this 15 times in the driveway with not one failure--all this was before the test drive. Next I took the car out for another 15-minute test drive, got it up to operating temperature, pulled back in the drive, shut the car off and immediately tried to start the car--and it would never start! At that point, it just keeps cranking and cranking with not one hint of the car firing or starting!
So what could it be? A relay? Or could it somehow be the fuel pump? No way on the fuel pump, right--because wouldn't it be impossible for the car to operate 100% normally on the 15 minute test drive if it was the fuel pump?
Hoping one of you experts can crack this case for me.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Neil.
Dear LVC Community:
Greetings to you all. My name is Neil and this is my first post!
I'm having a starting problem on my 2000 Lincoln Town Car (with 60,000 miles). Here are the details:
When I turn the key to start the car, the car will just keep cranking and cranking, and never fire at all--not even once.
So I thought it might be the fuel pump, so here's what I did: got some starting fluid and shot it in the throttle body. Initially it didn't work. Same problem, just perpetual cranking with no firing or running at all. Then, I repeated the process with more starting fluid and the car fired right up--but the car kept running (it didn't stall after a few seconds--which I thought it would do if it was the fuel pump, right?). So I went and drove the car for 15 minutes and everything was normal while driving it. Incidentally, I put in a brand new Die Hard, so I'm thinking to myself: "Great, problem solved." That is, until I got back in the driveway and shut the car off and immediately tried to restart it: same exact problem as before.
So, here's the strange thing: I let the car cool off and repeated the same procedure: shot starting fluid in the throttle body. This time before I took off on a test drive and got the car up to operating tempature I thought I'd test restarting it cold: to my surprise, I could start the car, turn it off, then restart it with no problem--before the car was up to operating temperature, in fact I started it like this 15 times in the driveway with not one failure--all this was before the test drive. Next I took the car out for another 15-minute test drive, got it up to operating temperature, pulled back in the drive, shut the car off and immediately tried to start the car--and it would never start! At that point, it just keeps cranking and cranking with not one hint of the car firing or starting!
So what could it be? A relay? Or could it somehow be the fuel pump? No way on the fuel pump, right--because wouldn't it be impossible for the car to operate 100% normally on the 15 minute test drive if it was the fuel pump?
Hoping one of you experts can crack this case for me.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Neil.