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Thank you for the reply, and figuring that a return to step 1 and meticulously re-diagnosis without depending on any previous findings was the only path left to follow. So to start my day off, I did without finding anything at all to cause fuel starvation, even fuel sampled from the tank. so had to walk away. Later while I was looking for any type of test I am ignorant of, to tryout, I thought of my pumps flex lines always curl-up at the ends. I decided to take a new sample after I wired a 1/2″ drive 15mm socket over the pump intake hose end to sink it looking for debris. I was shocked to find the pump unable to pull up fuel. I looked at what was in the line finding a thick fuel jelly. After dropping the tank again, I found it still clean and it looked like the rust coating was intact just a little over a inch thick layer of that fuel jelly covering the bottom. I can not think of what it is, why it is, nor how it would get there in under 20 days of rest. so guess that technically I solved the issue, only now left without a reason for it being there, and no clue how to find one. I am wondering is something dropped in the tank by somebody is able to cause a separate fuel gel layer to form?
I had a repair job almost like what I understand of your explanation, it looked pristine and in working order. After some probing and 2nd guessing found that the friction clip on slave cylinder was weak and allowed the 1 way valve to close and block of fluid flow. I replaced it bleed the system and no more issues. If you haven’t already may want to bleed the slave cylinder to check for air compression.
I don’t know if it is the same where you live, but here there are a couple of Pull-a-Part lots, and many like it, that have a lot of early to mid 90’s Honda cars that you can pull the engine out of and only pay $150 for it. I have done this and just swapped the non-serviceable parts off with the old engine when somebody was tight on cash. I wish you luck with the repairs tho. 😉
:cheer: Finally found the problem I was able to get the car and have it stop running while I was there and it turned out to be the crankshaft position sensor failing intermittently. So now that this car has made me look like a noob maybe I can get this thing going again.
Yeah LOL this one is testing me. The worst part is when I have it in front of me it works fine, well as fine as a 200k mile car can, and it refuses to put out a trouble code of any type. :unsure: It’s days like these that I miss fixing helicopters.
I had a car acting like that before not a Santa Fe but a PT Cruiser and it ended up being the main computer. it also had other probs tho like different electrical systems shutting off at random and the transmission missing shifts.
Thanks that was where I was going to start next, was just wanting a “second opinion” I was also thinking it may be the ignition switch or comp, because he just called me a short while ago and said it cut off won’t start and none of the windows will roll up. :blink: